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[maskreant]

Hey, this is Akira Kurusu and I'm not available right now. Leave a message and I'll get back to it as soon as I can. ①

GOSSIP

P.THIEVES

MOCHI

Comments

[usurpers]

How often?

[maskreant]

maybe once a month?

[usurpers]

You’re lying.

[maskreant]

stir fry is just easier.

[usurpers]

[ hm

acceptable ]

It’s alright. Especially with olive oil.
I’ve been trying to teach Elliot but I don’t think it goes through.

[maskreant]

i've been having him cook with me so that maybe he'll pick up good habits, but... it's difficult to unlearn something you were raised with.

we might just need to accept this as reality even though i have dreams of his cooking being really good.

[usurpers]

Old habits die hard so we need to kill hard.

But . . . Yeah, It’s better than mine. I think he rivaled my mom in those . . . Are we talking about the same dream?

[maskreant]

is it the same dream where you owned mechas instead of hot wheels?

[usurpers]

Yeah, exactly. Looks like we’re all sharing dreams.

Are you getting the feeling that it feels better?

[maskreant]

what do you mean exactly?

[usurpers]

That I had mechas instead of Hot Wheels.
It feels so wrong now that I needed to start selling the cars.

[maskreant]

i mean...

it does feel very right? like it fits perfect. of course it seems weird cause that isn't true right now, but it felt very right in the dream.

[usurpers]

So which is right?

[maskreant]

why are you asking me?

which one feels right to you, Eren? mechas or hot wheels?

[usurpers]

[ REALLY LONG PAUSE ]

Hot
Mechas
I don’t even know.

[maskreant]

mechas in bikinis.

are you going to start collecting them, too?

[usurpers]

???

[ you should’ve said elliot in a mecha it would’ve made more sense ]

I don’t know.
I just know the dreams I’m having are pretty cool. There was one just like that Atlantic Rim movie?

[maskreant]

they do sell kits to build those.

if you want, we can get a box.

[usurpers]

[ he doesn’t know why but

there’s something inside him that . . . that stirs. like a dormant beast. flashes of the dreams he had of mom taking him to the toy store for his birthday, memories of elliot bringing him surprise boxes and muting him for the rest of the day at the house mochi living room table unless it were grunting or about the mecha. and a time when he built a lego model with natalia and blabbed about the real thing being over 70 meters tall . . .



he yearns for it. and he accepts it. ]

Can we?

[maskreant]

[ You're. So Dumb. ]

yeah, of course?

we can check online if there aren't any models you like in-store.

[usurpers]

Okay.
You’re really great.

[maskreant]

thanks.

scream that on the rooftops now.

[usurpers]

You don’t want me doing that.

[maskreant]

as long as it's not mine, then it's okay.

[usurpers]

[ you know that means

everyone: eren no
eren: EREN YES ]

Got it.