Moving Day! Backdated to the 22nd

[bondsofsuffering]

Who: Hizumi Mizushiro, Ayumu Narumi, Hiyono Yuizaki, and Taro Watanabe. OPEN!
Where: Pisces District, around the apartments and the Narumi Detective Agency.
Summary: After working to turn it into a proper living space, the Spiral kids + a tanuki are moving into a detective agency because of lame name jokes.
Warnings: None.

It took some work, but what better way to distract yourself from certain Shadow pains than to get busy with moving? This may or may not be the reason why Hizumi abruptly called up the others and told them to get their stuff moved in if they wanted a bigger place to stay. And yes, even Hiyono was included in that list - even though he doesn't know a whole lot about her, she's Ayumu's friend from home and seems to know a few things, so why not?

Thus, various people can probably be found running between the apartments and the old Detective Agency. Even if they look busy, maybe they'll have time to stop and say hi?

Comments

[melodyoflogic]

Taro might not realize it, but those were words Ayumu rarely heard. Or maybe he did.

"Don't worry, school work is pretty easy for me." He was just lazy. He smiles back, picking out the cooking utensils he had and placing them in the sink to wash later.

"....But thanks. Really."

[hachitaro]

"No problem. That's what friends are for, right?"

He reaches out to pat Ayumu's shoulder, and then goes back to fussing with the kitchen stuff.

"Besides... it's not like I have to hide anything here. I can be honest. ... Which is strange for me, but hey."

[melodyoflogic]

"Didn't you have anyone at all you could be yourself around back in your world?" He giving Taro a curious look, questioning.

[hachitaro]

"... Yeah. Sort of. I mean... Toshiko and I have lived together for a long time. We're not - we've never dated or anything, we're just friends. But we've both been busy with our own projects lately. And even if I'm not an elected official and never was, I was always stuck in politics in the Underground. And if you think human politics is cut-throat..."

Suffice it to say that assassination attempts on the actual elected officials weren't exactly uncommon.

"... Our entire existence demands that we hide what we are from the world. The people who want us to show ourselves are also usually the kind of people who claim that they're superior to humans. No one likes it, but there's no good answer. And we fight amongst ourselves, making ourselves weaker and threatening to expose ourselves to humanity. And... we won't survive that. So I was trying to play the political game, trying to make peace."

He smiles thinly. That turned out so well... ugh.

"... If they could see this world, where people and demons live together... if not always peacefully, then at least peacefully enough. I don't think any of them would believe it. Hiding is all most of us know, or at least have known since we left our homelands."