"Now is it morning? Ugh, morning, everyone."

"So many pretty women around, it's like I want to go out and impress! Then I remember I really only have a few outfits and my redeeming quality is being a combative fog machine."

" . . . "

Blowing smoke rings.

"Hero academies, hero associations, hero this and that... Hmm."

"Geh..."

♠

"What's a Taimanin--"

Huff.

"Almost the New Year. Good, good."

Yawns. Man, what's he been doing? Too bored around here.

Bites his thumb. Smoke comes out of his fist like a pipe.

Oh! He... doesn't know how to respond to applause. Just kinda, blinking. "...Thanks?" x.com/SmolSakura/sta…

Puffs a cloud of gray smoke into her face. x.com/GuiseOfEleganc…

Breathes in, and the smoke returns through his lips. "You'll be fine." x.com/GuiseOfEleganc…

"Maaaaybe you should come up with better jokes." x.com/GuiseOfEleganc…

Hmm... This was odd. But yknow, he'll ride this wave. He nodded and stepped back, breathing in and then puffing out a gray ring of smoke into the air that just hovered in place after moving forward a few feet. x.com/SmolSakura/sta…