idk we're going with it

[usogi]

Comments

[messianic]

[Well...]

It's not really about what I like, right? It's about what my friends will enjoy.

[Minato moves through the store just as curiously, occasionally picking up an oddity here or there.]

A lot of this is eyecatching though, isn't it...?

[usogi]

Just because we're here for them doesn't mean I don't want to know more about what you like along the way....

[just saying!! but senri laughs as he picks up another little odd statue shaped like an elephant]

Definitely! What would you even use some of these things for?

[messianic]

... Decoration...?

[But he doesn't sound very sure.]

Look at this... [what]

[usogi]

[what.]

..... what am I looking at, Minapyon.

[messianic]

... No idea.

I think it's...a gong? A tiny gong.

Minigong.

Gong Lite.

[usogi]

Gong Jr.

Son of Gong.

[ . . . ]

Buy it.

[messianic]

[... A blink.]

Why? Do you know someone you could give it to as a gift?

[usogi]

Not off the top of my head but.... it'd be funny to have anyway, don't you think? Does it cost a lot?

[do it for the vine, minato]

[messianic]

[Minato checks the tag and...shrugs?]

700 yen.

[So no, not a lot, but still....]

You don't want to buy it?

[usogi]

I mean, I can but what I'd do with it...

[terrorize his roommate]

I feel like you'd be more generous. And pure. By a lot.

[messianic]

With a gong...?

[????

He still doesn't understand, but... he shrugs and picks it up anyway.]

Alright, I guess...

[usogi]

[can you imagine being woken up at 7 in the morning with a tiny gong

because that's what senri was planning.]

Mm, yeah just trust me.

And when you ring the gong you can think of me!

[messianic]

That's a little silly.

[Oh...?]

I don't need a gong to remind me to think of you. A lot of things remind me of you.

[usogi]

Really? Like what?

[needy.]

[messianic]

Like... how the color orange reminds me of you, and also things that are sparkly, because you're kind of a sparkly person.

And kaomoji, since you're the one who usually sends me those, and when new games come out because I think about how you'll want to play them...

Things like that.

[usogi]

[ . . . huh.

senri supposes that's not bad - given that all of those things are true. it's impressive how none of his lies got mixed in, and he wonders if that means that minato must be really good at watching people.]

Wooooow. You're mindful of a lot of little things, Minapyon! You'll make me blush!

[shut up]

[messianic]

[... Huh.]

You aren't blushing, though... do I have to try harder?

[usogi]

Ah, please don't. I have a reputation to maintain?

[no you don't]

[messianic]

[A blank blink.]

You do?

[usogi]

Minapyon, that's rude?! That's super rude! I'm the rising star of the theater, you know....!

[CRITICS SAY SO!!!!]

[messianic]

Ah... well, I never realized you were trying to maintain some sort of reputation when we're together, that's all.

[Shrugs a little!]

It's not that I'm doubting your success, you know.

[usogi]

Even then, of course I want to show you my cool side...

You're funny.

[he doesn't even think twice about it]

[messianic]

Funny...?

[HE DOESN'T GET IT.]

... Anyway, I think you're plenty cool. You don't have to try or anything.

[usogi]

Well that means my attempts are at least partially working then, right? I hope Minapyon will still continue to see me in such a kind light.

[he likes it... even if he's not sure that he deserves it

but anyway he'll continue to wander around the antique shop, even though he's still half-attached to minato]

See anything that you could use for a gift yet...?

[messianic]

[Minato just pauses at that, rummaging around a bit.

Before.

He triumphantly returns with.

A thing.

Oh god it's horrible.

And, completely solemnly:]

This.

[He.......he can't be serious.]