[...That's the most ridiculous thing he thinks he's ever heard.
And he's about to say so, "don't talk back to your girlfriend" be damned, when she steps back and everything goes wrong. She loses her balance, he lunges forward to grab her arm so he doesn't fall, while her geta is about to try its damnedest to kill him, or at least die trying, like it all were some sort of conspiracy. He might have even believed that back in October.
But where Minako's luck ends, Shinjiro's begins for perhaps the one and only time in his life. The hand that's not trying to stop Minako's fall and steady her reacts reflexively, and he catches the geta in his palm as if his future career lay in professional baseball, effectively halting the shoe's upward progression before it could leave an ugly, smug bruise in its wake. He doesn't really have time to be surprised yet, too preoccupied with trying to make sure the both of them don't end up on the ground. ]
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And he's about to say so, "don't talk back to your girlfriend" be damned, when she steps back and everything goes wrong. She loses her balance, he lunges forward to grab her arm so he doesn't fall, while her geta is about to try its damnedest to kill him, or at least die trying, like it all were some sort of conspiracy. He might have even believed that back in October.
But where Minako's luck ends, Shinjiro's begins for perhaps the one and only time in his life. The hand that's not trying to stop Minako's fall and steady her reacts reflexively, and he catches the geta in his palm as if his future career lay in professional baseball, effectively halting the shoe's upward progression before it could leave an ugly, smug bruise in its wake. He doesn't really have time to be surprised yet, too preoccupied with trying to make sure the both of them don't end up on the ground. ]