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❛ down with yoshi...? well, if nayuta's against me too, then i really don't stand a chance. denji, did you not tell her i was gonna buy her a new book?

❛ just doing my job. ha ha ha.

kraken. ︴WAIT WE'RE CROSSING THE STREAMSー

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( & yoshida steps right on it, flattening it beneath his nice shoe. legitimately, completely by accident. he looks down, then back at... oh, yeah, that guy. ) ❛ ... whoops. my mistake.

❛ you... ( his strange, placid expression doesn't change much, but he seems vaguely pitying as he looks down at the struggling boy at his feet. ) ❛ you could just ask me to move my foot, y'know.

❛ there we go. ( the family resemblance is unnervingly strong, here. obligingly, he moves his foot off the hat & lets higashiyama scoop it back up. ) ❛ you really should take better care of your stuff. imagine if you'd dropped that into a puddle!

kraken. ︴thank you all for 100 followers! this is a new verse for me, so i'm super flattered.

( slowly uncrossing his fingers. )

( he casually turns & plants his foot on the protruding shark fin. not stomping down, just preventing any more forward movement. he's remarkably perceptive ー call it an affinity with other marine devils like his. ) ❛ hi.

❛ i believe you. ( he does not. )

( he's getting kind of tired of all these staring matches, but hey, he can keep up. that's the advantage to having those dark, dead eyes of his. ) ❛ ... something i can help you with? ( staring right back. )

❛ not if you actually keep up & pay attention, i've found. ( he's actually holding a textbook as he speaks. just to rub it in. )

❛ ouch. i'm just trying to secure a good future for myself while i can ー devil hunters usually die young, y'know. ( he seems less fazed by that than he probably ought to be. ) ❛ but, i'm sure your way works out for you just fine too.

❛ people who do well at school don't usually go out of their way to complain about how much it sucks, ha ha. ( just a helpful little tip. yoshida's been smiling that vague, creepy smile of his the whole time. ) ❛ let me know if you ever need a tutor.