6/8: eichi

[randori]

[ He promised nothing would happen. He wouldn't let anything happen. Please don't let anything have happened—- ]

EICHIIIIIIIIIIII!! EICHI!! EICHI EICHI EICHI!!!

[ screams his name up and down the castle trying to find him, leaping up the stairs two or three steps at a time, flinging open bedroom doors at random without a care for privacy, frantically searching everywhere he can for Eichi, one hand cupped at the side of his mouth as he shouts.

There's something else clenched in his other hand, a tight fist that he doesn't relax throughout the entire time. ]

Comments

[randori]

You're not!

[ He slams his fist on the counter. It's the staple arm. ]

I told you not to talk like that, right?!

[finethanks]

It's a habit... That aside, could you please be careful? That hurt a little bit, and I could have been holding tea.

[He's left-handed so it's even worse if his left arm is stapled, free him.]

[randori]

Oh. Yeah, sorry-

[ He goes through the motions of slamming his fist again, but slower, and more gently this time. ]

[finethanks]

[... Okay this is enough humoring. He reaches for their pinned sleeves to unfold the needle and yank it out.]

[randori]

[ He's really no fun sometimes. ]

I went through all that trouble, too...

[finethanks]

Sorry, sorry. I'd rather finish up my tea here and go to rest. If I'm up for too long, it could be bad for my health, after all.

[randori]

[ And we can't have that! Eichi is learning just what buttons to push to make Natsuo reconsider. ]

!! Then you go rest! I dunno if you can take the tea with you... so just hold it in your mouth until you get back to your room.

[ Just store it in there and don't trip. ]

[finethanks]

[He does that.

Also wh... he's going to ignore that advice but remember it for a while later like, wow, that sure was spoken aloud. He loves Natsuo.]

Then I'll say good night, Natsuo-kun. Take care. ♪