GUEST SERVICES - AKIRA

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[. . . reaches out to playfully bat at one of her ears!! very lightly]

You're not used to seeing it?

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[There's a surprised little chirp-like noise as her ear flicks in response. Hey!!!]

It's not that...it's just that not everyone is like that. [...so yeah, debatable.] Sometimes people fall apart at even the smallest things.

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[haha. . ]

Not me. I refuse.

[. . . though. now that they've talked about Meltryllis, Akira recalls there was one other thing Akira was supposed to ask about]

Oh— Peach, do you have a copy of my invitation? The RSVP? I want to look at it.

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Hm? Oh, yeah, sure. Hold on a sec. [And she just. Leaves? Give her a moment to disappear somewhere before she comes back with a small box that she begins pawing through to pull out Akira's RSVP.]

Here you go. [It's written on nice stationery and it's definitely Akira's signature. Wow.]

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Thanks.

[he says with a smile as he takes the RSVP. he isn't focused on the signature, though; what's the date?]

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[She'll sip her coffee while she waits! Akira will see that the date is February 7th, but the year is smudged and illegible :')]

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[????]

[why did Akechi want him to see this??? a mystery]

[he hands the RSVP back to Peach]

Huh. . . does everyone's invitation have the same date?

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Yeah, more or less. Why do you ask? [She'll take it back and put it away.]

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[. . . ah. . . well. now he thinks he's starting to see. . .]

[Akira's eyes narrow briefly]

Curiosity. Akechi wanted me to look, so I did.

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...Mr. Akechi is pretty nosy, isn't he?

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Detective.

[AKA: YES]

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So his plaque says. But some detectives are better at being subtle than others.

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Subtlety has never been Akechi's strong point.

[never. not as long as Akira has known him]

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[...hope Akira's ready for the next question.]

Are you guys friends?

1/2

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[JESUS FUCKING CHRIST]

[SURPRISE PEACH IS THE VERY FIRST PERSON TO ASK THAT QUESTION]

[opens mouth]

[closes it again]

[opens mouth]

[?????]

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[. . .]

[HRRRRRRRRRRGH]






I'd like to be.

But I don't know how.

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[I'm crying I can't believe this. Anyway, Peach herself looks a little surprised but mostly because that seems...???]

Why not? I never thought you seemed like the kind of person that had a hard time making friends.

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[uuuugh]

Our history is a little complicated. And that's putting it mildly.

[u know what, it's Peach. he can be honest about Peach]

He tried to kill me once.

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[...hm. Her ears flatten.]

Why would he do that? [Time to kill Akechi???]

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[do no that's his detective!!]

It's-- very complicated.

[he says with a huffed laugh, because it's almost. . . funny, in a completely non-humorous way]

But the short story is he was working for someone who wanted me dead. The longer story is. . . [a pause]

I think he convinced himself that he hated me.

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[Sometimes you accidentally stan a human??]

...was he working for that person that you couldn't save? [Hm.] You sound like you don't believe he actually hates you.

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[. . . . . . . .]

[UGH]

[sorry Akechi, sounds like you're getting your backstory revealed to some NPCs after all]

He was the person I couldn't save.

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...oh. [Okay never mind no killing Akechi.] So he's...actually not alive right now. [...wait.] And that's why it's complicated because you don't know if he actually cares about you or if you were just convenient for whatever he wanted. Is that it? What did he even want to do in the first place?

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That's-- part of it.

[a breath]

He also hurt two people who are very important to me. I can't forgive him for that, especially if they haven't forgiven him yet.

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And being here probably doesn't make it any easier to talk to him about all of that. Has he ever said why he did that...? What did he gain from it?