Well, it being a holding company means we had our hand in a lot of other companies... but that's a story for another time, heh.
[ #justyakuzathings intensifies ]
Oh yeah—she's doing great! She's taking some time for herself on a world tour. If anyone deserves it for working their ass off to get where they are today, it's her.
That's...really cool that you were able to do that for her, actually. It takes a lot of dedication to change your own life to try and help somebody with theirs.
Dude! [ indignant! cruelty! he's swatting at ichiban's hand and fails to avoid the ruffling, but honestly it's fine considering he doesn't look nearly as bothered as he sounds. there's a difference between doing this kind of thing versus someone doing it thinking he's twelve. his hair's kind of a mess anyway so who cares. they really did get off track though and he considers the question. ]
Mm...she's great. Pretty much the most important person in the world. She's one of the hardest-working people I've ever known and she always takes on way more responsibility than she really should have to. We're six years apart, so she's always taken care of me even when we weren't living together and she went to live with our mom. [ but he's busy looking at the jellyfish instead of ichiban while he continues. ] ...my mom left because my dad wasn't making enough money for us, and even after the divorce he was still trying to make his career work instead of getting a job that actually paid decently. So she started working to help us out. I'm still not really sure how she juggled classes and working nights and weekends, but...she's pretty bad about asking for help when she needs it and tries to do everything on her own though, like, all the time. She usually prioritizes the people she cares about before herself.
[ sweet... ichiban really does think he's lucky to be seeing this side of shoma, just a kid who really loves his sister. ]
Heh... she sounds amazing, Sho-kun. No wonder she's your everything. [ he places his hand on shoma's shoulder once again. ] And it just made me wanna double down on gettin' you back to her. That's a promise.
[ he doesn't push ichiban's hand away. but he does find himself wondering if it's fair to just cut the story off there.
...it's better this way. this man's way, way too sincere, and it's only fair to let him think it's easy like this. the goal is to get home and back to amame regardless of all of the other circumstances. he loves her and he misses her and that's all that matters anymore.
never mind the way he clears his throat to wrestle down a few petals. what matters is that he grins at what ichiban says, a quick nod of agreement. ]
Yeah. Definitely. [ but... ] I want to get back pretty bad, but we still have work to do here, too. Can't half-ass it as much as we might want to, right? So we'll have to do our best.
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Dude. Mizuki's the CEO of an entertainment company, owner of a maid café and a special agent. Your thing at least sounds a little more plausible than all that. [ but it...sounds kind of sweet, actually, to think that he really only stepped in because someone asked for help. ]
Guess you really couldn't say no. And it sounds like it worked out really well for both of you. You're still in touch with her?
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[ #justyakuzathings intensifies ]
Oh yeah—she's doing great! She's taking some time for herself on a world tour. If anyone deserves it for working their ass off to get where they are today, it's her.
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That's...really cool that you were able to do that for her, actually. It takes a lot of dedication to change your own life to try and help somebody with theirs.
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[ HE'S GONNA RIDE THIS HIGH ]
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[ but he's grinning, so that's definitely a joke. ]
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[ REACHES OVER AND RUFFLES HIS HAIR... he laughs, though, and takes his hand back quickly enough. ]
What about you? What's your sister like?
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Mm...she's great. Pretty much the most important person in the world. She's one of the hardest-working people I've ever known and she always takes on way more responsibility than she really should have to. We're six years apart, so she's always taken care of me even when we weren't living together and she went to live with our mom. [ but he's busy looking at the jellyfish instead of ichiban while he continues. ] ...my mom left because my dad wasn't making enough money for us, and even after the divorce he was still trying to make his career work instead of getting a job that actually paid decently. So she started working to help us out. I'm still not really sure how she juggled classes and working nights and weekends, but...she's pretty bad about asking for help when she needs it and tries to do everything on her own though, like, all the time. She usually prioritizes the people she cares about before herself.
[ a pause. ]
I'm not sure I'd be here without her.
comes back here for cute shoma
Heh... she sounds amazing, Sho-kun. No wonder she's your everything. [ he places his hand on shoma's shoulder once again. ] And it just made me wanna double down on gettin' you back to her. That's a promise.
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...it's better this way. this man's way, way too sincere, and it's only fair to let him think it's easy like this. the goal is to get home and back to amame regardless of all of the other circumstances. he loves her and he misses her and that's all that matters anymore.
never mind the way he clears his throat to wrestle down a few petals. what matters is that he grins at what ichiban says, a quick nod of agreement. ]
Yeah. Definitely. [ but... ] I want to get back pretty bad, but we still have work to do here, too. Can't half-ass it as much as we might want to, right? So we'll have to do our best.