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. ]

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[finethanks]

[uhhhhhhhh

He pauses from getting his tea stuff.]

What, exactly, are you doing? This makes it difficult to make tea, you know?

[randori]

It's okay, you can just drag my hand around.

[ Think of it as strength training, Eichi. ]

[finethanks]

I'm more concerned about damaging my uniform.

[He likes his school uniform? Also, he doesn't need strength training. The needle will be what snaps, for sure... That's all he can think.]

I haven't left your side, so this isn't necessary. Where did you find something like this, anyway? It's dangerous.

[randori]

It's like a button! It won't damage it!

[ But he will take a little greater care to follow Eichi's movements so that the holes in their sleeves don't tug any larger than they already are. ]

It's from the tailor's room- It's what people use to sew and embroider and stuff! I've embroidered before, you know? So I know how to use it!

[ once in his life, and no he doesn't ]

[finethanks]

If it pricks either one of us, it could be quite dangerous, you know.

[He doesn't want to know if ink or blood comes out!! He carefully tries to keep setting up his tea, but this is so distracting...]

We'll have to separate at some point.

[randori]

I could bend it the other way so both pointy ends are on my side...

[ But as long as there are no sudden motions, it shouldn't matter. As long as Eichi doesn't run away or disappear on him, he doesn't care. ]

I don't want to separate. What if it's like what happened with— with... [ "Gi-Gan," he lets the silence supply, ] and I wake up the next there and you're not there? If something happened to you and I wasn't there? How am I supposed to live like that?

[finethanks]

[I guess he's just staring up a teapot while stapled to Natsuo, this is fine.]

There are some things that you cannot help, you know, so if that happens, you should continue living no matter what. I'm already quite close to death.

[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. ♪