text; un: tengennohana

[ryototsukai]

i'm already 1m yen in debt?!

i just started in debt to Tenko-hime?!

i mean i did spend a ton of money on food and drinks and lovely women and cute boys and stuff but

somehow i thought it would all work out?

how am i supposed to handle this?!?!

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[ryototsukai]

it was a combination of things! i didn't spend it all on host clubs!

[deadtective]

But did you spend it all in host clubs?

[ryototsukai]

nope!

i also spent a ton on food.

it's so amazing here! i've never had tastier soba!

[ And she once made some in a holy grail, so. There's that. ]

[deadtective]

[must be nice, living out the ultimate college freshman's dream...Hazel would be jealous, but the way this world has twisted her means she can at least taste the food she sticks in her mouth now.

(she's still a little jealous)]

In that case it sounds like you wasted a shit ton of that cash on the dudes. You can always pay someone to like you, but the seasonal shit on the menu might not be back next year!! You gotta prioritize, man.

[ryototsukai]

also the champagne pyramids.

[ At more than one club. ]

[deadtective]

[....................important question.]

Did you pour it on anyone's tits?

[ryototsukai]

only when i was invited to!

[ So yes. ]

[deadtective]

[so that wasn't some dumb shit that they only did in films. but then, if it was at a host club didn't that still sort of count as 'fiction'? why was she thinking so hard about this??]

...no wonder your bill was so goddamn high. Surprised they didn't make you clean the whole fucking place up yourself after that.

[ryototsukai]

trust me, given our leader is a fox youkai with untold magic powers, i can tell i'm getting off easy here.

it still sucks.

they're gonna take half my paycheck till it's all paid off.

[deadtective]

Only half? Shit, that's fucking nothing. Just stock up on those little cup noodles and you can even make another pyramid for your apartment.

[because that wouldn't be depressing at all, coming down from a champagne tower.]

[ryototsukai]

having tasted the most heavenly soba

reduced to eating instant ramen

this really IS hell

[deadtective]

Say it like that and all the flavor packets are gonna disappear out of the packaging.

[ryototsukai]

i mean i DO know how to make my own noodle broth!

but that'd still be more expensive.

UUUUUUUGGHHHHH

well. this is my lot. i just gotta get used to it.

the name's musashi, by the way! miyamoto musashi!

[deadtective]

That's the spirit. Save the bitching for when you realize you're not gonna be having toppings on anything for the next sixty years.

[she considers giving out her real name. she actually does, alright! ...but in the end the feeling of so many potential eyes on even an innocuous conversation like this keeps her from hanging it out. save that for an in person moment when she can't avoid it.]

Just Stitches is fine for right now. Nice to meet you, I guess? Nice to meet someone who's made fucking worse decisions than me, anyway.

[ryototsukai]

you really have a way of making a girl feel better, don't you, Stitches-kun?

[ Does sarcasm carry over text? She has no idea. ]

[deadtective]

[it does when you're texting a ~*professional*~]

Hey, it's what I'm here for. Some people get a lot out of being a reassurance to someone else, or so I'm told.

Honestly though I wouldn't worry too much about it. Place kinda strikes me as one where everyone's gonna be on the hook for something for-fucking-ever.

[ryototsukai]

that's true, and at least these terms are pretty reasonable. i'm not being expected to pay any interest.

[deadtective]

That you're aware of.

[ryototsukai]

please stop being so determined to jinx this.

[deadtective]

What's the matter, you that superstitious?

[ryototsukai]

let's just say i've seen some things that make one believe in the power of curses and the impact of negative energy.

[deadtective]

Girl, I've got bad fucking news for you then. I'm practically made of negative energy.

[ryototsukai]

like

a straw effigy or something?

[ Maybe a little esoteric, Musashi. ]

[deadtective]

[w e l l......]

Minus the straw...and for a given definition of effigy, maybe.

[ryototsukai]

wait are you actually a curse vessel?!

[ She'd mostly been kidding, but honestly, as soon as she typed that, she realized it wasn't actually that strange, given the context they were even having the conversation within. ]