[HIATUS]

… You do deserve it! Ahー wait, is this…
about the other two, then? I uh…

… I care about them too, seriously.

If I was angry about things all the time I'd fall apart.

「* A small sigh as he fidgets ever so slightly.」

So i'd rather try to not add more stressors to everything, y'know?

Oh, that makes sense…

「* A small smile as he watches the other. Thinking for a moment.」

But… Hm…
It's just a feeling I have, but I want to leave this with you. The food I made just a bit ago. You deserve it since I startled you so bad, haha…

「* It's REALLY well made, surprisingly…」

… You're good at it, I promise.
I'm sorry for my previous freakouts, you know…?

「* He sips the drink again.」

I really care about you, y'know. I love you and I don't think that I'd even be … around still without you, as morbid as that sounds.

I would have nothing to keep me going.
I love you.

… It's just the usual for me.
I've been through a lot, and stress does bad things to me nowadays…

Alas, it’s been broken.

can't sleep tonight either,
suffocating forever

Ah, hahah… Thanks, Midori. You're so sweet to me, really.

「* Of course he's careful with it, sipping the tea gently. It's honestly already helping a bit, as is her presence near him.」

… Really, I think I'd be a complete mess without you.

Could I have something… like tea. The kind that… calms down, actually? Yeah. H… hahh…ahha….

Thank you…. you're so sweet to me.
I … I mmgh….

「* He just sort of falls to his knees. a small, weak sigh escapes him.」

Everything feels rather dizzy right now, sorry, I-I… think I….

Okay… ha…

「* He just relaxes into her touch. Some of the substance probably gets on her though.」

Sorry… I-I should know better than to think back on it, really.

「* Shaking his head.」

I need to focus on now. For us, you know?

… h-haha…. hhhー

「* wincing slightly, his hands reach up to grab at his screen, which had slightly started to leak the shadowy substance again. Great. Fucking hell.」

….

「* Trying to calm down. Trying hard.」

II i i t's finee.
I-I… I shouldn't.
Shhouldn't think too much about it.

Haha.
Ha.

(sleep well niel)

You're fine. It's… pretty hard to bother me now.

「* In most cases.」

You do take care of yourself.

A-ahaha… yea, true…
I'm pretty…. ridiculous because of that. I mean, I don't know.

「* He just sighs, looking down.」

I just… wish things worked out properly in the end. That I made different choices. That I didn't 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘮. You know?

… You're so much better.

(right let me state that the like. canonical ch3 ver. of this tenna is @smash-cut.bsky.social sooo have fun with That)

Ahaー yeah .. man… erm, if I could I'd knock some sense into myself of back then. Or something.

Haー wwaait

Sorry. Sorry. Not my place to talk.

「* …」

He's really giving himself away to a random pippin, huh?

… Really? That's not very nice…

「* A small sigh. It reminded him of himself when he was… No, maybe it's the best not to talk about it. Or think about it.」

… Well, I suppose that you should go back to work then?

Heheh… Heyy…

「* Gently petting Pluey. Okay, he can't resist. At all.」

Pink and yellow eyes, litlte red bowtie…
I made him a gift, um, because I felt bad about something… Should I just leave it here?

「* Not even questioning why the other was in the room anyways.」

.
… …? Eh?

「* Yeah okay! That's a bit confusing. He knew about the costume ONLY for battat, but in the case of pluey, well… no, he didn't know about it. So he just nonchalauntly holds the cute bowl of food and just questions (rather calmly, surprisingly)…」

Have you seen a cat…?

Sometimes I… don't quite realize how I come off to others.

I DO I PROMISE Iー
I didn't know that I was coming off that way…

…
Actually, maybe it's fine. "Battat" is probably busy.

Sorry, heh…

…
「* He seems to pause, and then look to the side.」

Well, that's fine I suppose. I forgot how all that worked, you know?
Haha… I guess that's sort of what I get given I don't really run a studio anymore…

「* A shrug. He had such an odd feeling from this pippins, but…」

Ah, that's fine I think…!