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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

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Comments

[maskreant]

[ squinting........... ]

how does chocolate exist if it isn't made?

[lalliho]

you know what I mean!! it's factory stuff

[maskreant]

[ links this to him. ]

though it's a thing that also happens at home, when people want to make chocolates for a special someone.

[lalliho]

[Well obviously there are professionals who do it, too!!! Fancy chocolate shit. Ugh.]

I don’t believe you and I asked someone and they said that doesn’t happen either and you were just trying to get me over there.

[maskreant]

isn't that biased of you? you probably like this person more than me, so you are more likely to believe them.

even though i'm right.

anyway, you don't need to come over. i thought you wanted to learn, so i offered.

[lalliho]

[mmmm that's very true, he did indeed like Minato quite a bit more than Akira... fuck. what now?

...]

when I was little someone invited me over to play but I went and she had someone else over and they pretended they couldn't see or hear me

[He...is not good at this. Any of this.]

[maskreant]

i've spent most of my childhood being called the ghost of the classroom. in my memories, everyone avoided me for being a "bad apple."

you don't need to trust me, but i promise i won't do that to you. it's not a nice feeling.

[lalliho]

if I don't trust you how can I believe that promise...don't I have to if I want to believe that?

[maskreant]

you don't need to. a promise is a promise.

trust is earned, anyway.

[lalliho]

[Hngh... It's hard to reconcile that in his brain, but it wasn't as if he thought Akira was sitting over there, half in shadow and twirling some silly mustache. He'd seemed to try and be helpful, and Minato did say he didn't think he'd lie to be malicious, even if he didn't believe him about the chocolate.]

okay

[maskreant]

so you don't want to make chocolates?

[lalliho]

[hnnngh. It takes a while, but a message eventually comes, after he figures out a way to allow himself to...write out his trackwreck thoughts.]

1. it's not valentines anymore
2. he won't return my feelings
3. he got too much chocolate he gave me some
4. you have so many roommates
5. I could have gone back today so many you could too but I stayed here now I might never come back

in no particular order of importance

[Just without the numbers, he would be stuck staring at his phone unsure of how to start.]

[maskreant]

Valentine's Day is but a commercialized holiday where companies benefit from the masses buying into it. it doesn't matter the day. it's the thought that counts.

i didn't know you confessed?

[lalliho]

yeah that's how I knew they weren't really dates

I think...giving him any would be a bad idea. idk how to explain why and if I think about it too much he's going to get sick from the partner link.

[maskreant]

~soulmates~ not much you can do then. spend time however makes you most comfortable.

who is it, anyway?

[lalliho]

I’m sorry, you must be at least a level 4 friend to unlock that information

[maskreant]

i can make a post on the network to ask, you know?

[ he's evil. ]

[lalliho]

die

I mean don't

he wouldn't tell you anyway

[He's...he's pretty sure.]

[maskreant]

how are you sure?

everyone has different scales of importance.

[lalliho]

[aaaaahahaha. ha.]

I'm pretty low on his scale. everything is. it's a dumb question about the feelings of someone he rejected more than once. why would he answer that?

[maskreant]

i guess you're right. at least i'm sure it's a guy.

are you happy?

[lalliho]

wow congratulations now all of Recolle will know I'm gay

probably not

[maskreant]

i wasn't actually going to post anything. that isn't my style.

so even staying by his side doesn't make you happy?

[lalliho]

oh I thought you meant in general right now

of course I like being by him if I didn't I wouldn't be his friend or want to date him

[maskreant]

and you don't expect anything of him, right?

it would get complicated if you did.