lili & kaoru need less money

[coastal]

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[twinsightful]

[There's...a faint laugh.]

If anyone's the idiot here, it's me for underestimating you and your ability to take care of yourself. I don't think you understand.

[coastal]

[




sorry hold on]

What?

[twinsightful]

[WHY.]

You're entirely capable of taking care of yourself and I don't know if I am in comparison. My bad for thinking it was the other way around. [A blasé shrug. It's too casual but he doesn't want to actually discuss everything and make things even more annoying for her. But she's stubborn, so...well. Whatever.]

[coastal]

[ . . . hrrrrggghhhhh. the problem is that lili thinks that she’s capable and able to do anything she puts her mind to, but she almost never hears other people come to the same conclusion. she’s still absolutely baffled for a moment when kaoru explains, even though there’s definitely a blush that’s starting to color her face at the recognition

and then she’S JUST GONNA HUFF AND WALK AWAY TO THE FRIDGE even though she doesn’t need anything from it]

... I said I’d protect you, didn’t I?

[still enjoy the fact that she’s like half a foot shorter than him And Yet]

[twinsightful]

[This...tsundere...princess....he blinks after her even if he's actually trying not to grin, doing nothing to follow her but watching her for a moment.]

You did. [Is he actually going to explain?] ...Hikaru...[Nah.]

Have you spoken to Ookurikara much?

[coastal]

[lili has nothing she needs from the fridge she’s just gonna kEEP TRYING TO LOOK FOR STUFF AND HOPE THAT HER FACE COOLS DOWN]

Enough...

Why?

[twinsightful]

[This is so funny why the fuck. But he allows this...]

We've spoken a bit...he seems to think there are only certain forms of training and work we should be doing here. I was curious if he said anything like that to you.

[coastal]

[LEAVE HER ALONE

her faces remains in the fridge]

Training and work... He’s a pretty serious type, but I believe in what he tries to accomplish.

[RECKLESS REBELLION also he’s hot. wow is that boy hot.]

He’s been helping me learn swordplay, and cook.

Do you mean like that?

[twinsightful]

I got the impression he was incredibly serious. [But he looks up at the ceiling.] Something like that. I told him I was attempting to do some research on this place and the people in it and essentially learned that it's pointless if I can't get the answers right away.

[He doesn't take Kara too seriously, but it annoyed him because he's not really a fighter.]

[coastal]

He’s bad at getting along with others.

[like. incredibly bad.]

What you can do is different from what he can.

[and that manages to calm her down enough that she can... pull her face out of the fridge and go back to the batter wordlessly as if she wasn’t looking for anything at all]

So... don’t listen to him, if you’re discouraged.

[twinsightful]

Yeah. I noticed. [Bluntly. But he watches her and kind of mulls over that.]

I understand his point, but I want to also prove him wrong. That's the problem I'm finding here.

[coastal]

[lili shrugs]

Then work around him, and faster. Then give him information that he wants.

[is she into kara? unfortunately - hell yea.

is she even more into the idea of proving people wrong at every turn?

hell yea]

[twinsightful]

I do work best out of spite. [But he may as well share what else he knows.]

I've started something of an alliance with Milla as well to trade information. I thought you may as well know that for future reference.

[coastal]

There are worse people to ally yourself with.

[and she'll go back to the cookbook that she brought along to see what else she needs to do with this batch of batter...]

I told Ookurikara to go to Shess for help, because - oh, he doesn't know anyone's names. That's how stubborn he gets. [juST SO KAORU KNOWS]

Shess told me that a group was sent earlier this week to deal with the darkness in the gateway.

I also gave Shess our shared list of trustworthy people, since I figure if he's that old, he probably has a better way to find information than us.

[twinsightful]

[This also explains a lot about Kara, so he nods.]

Darkness in the gateway? So they were right about that? [The NPCS? Were useful?] Shess seems fairly well connected. He and Axel are perhaps our best bets for ensuring we hear about anything sooner or later.

Did he agree with that list?

[coastal]

He said 'thank you' for it... so I don't know if he plans to listen to me or not, but if nothing else I was heard.

[twinsightful]

That's about all we can expect in a place like this. But I'll keep that in mind whenever I speak to him again.

[coastal]

Right...

At the very least, you’re personable enough that you should be able to get more information. Then you can help spread it, and hold it over Ookurikara’s head.

[PLEASE be nice to kara]

[twinsightful]

I do like the sound of that, actually. It'll drive him crazy and that's what makes it fun. I'll see how much I can get in the next week.

[coastal]

Okay, okay, just make sure to share and don't annoy him so much that he hits you.

[she has none trust]

[twinsightful]

I'm good at dodging, it'll be fine.

[That's not how you should look at it, but okay.]

[coastal]

I'm not icing your injury afterward.

[she will]

[twinsightful]

Of course you won't. [He knows. But he looks back at the bread.]

...so how does this work anyway? [How does baking work, fuck if he knows.]

[coastal]

[tY I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO BAKE WHY DO WE KEEP DOING THIS]

... I'm still figuring that part out too.

Don't laugh.

I think it has to be heated now, though.

[twinsightful]

[STOP PLAYING CHARACTERS WHO WOULD BAKE.]

That would be an appropriate step, yes. [Just. Peering at the oven.] We had a home economics class at school but I never learned either. Haruhi knew how to do this sort of thing though.