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[heartshutter]

Date: August 26th
From: Minerva

Hello, everyone.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I arrived home at my temple tonight to find that a shinki of mine, Shouhei Akagi, has apparently gone home.

It looks like he's left some things behind here for his friends, so if you were close to him at all, please come by the temple and get them whenever you like. I know he would definitely want you to have them.

Comments

[heartshutter]

Yes. I'm sure he's missed there; needed, too.

[ Someone has to look after Anna.

Plus, what reason does he have not to believe that he would return home? Can anyone here attest to it or refute it? ]

[reformedsinner]

I'm sure. I wish you both the best, in that case.

I wonder if he ever managed to arrange that date...

[heartshutter]

Thanks! I'm sure everything will work out in the end. It always does.

Aah, I wonder that too, now that you mention it! He wouldn't ever tell me who it was for,
even.

[ pout. ]

[reformedsinner]

Maybe it was for you! Ha ha.

[heartshutter]

For me? That would have been very kind of him, but I doubt it!

I've never been on an actual date before, that wasn't with a friend, as a joke. It might have been nice!

[reformedsinner]

Is that so? Why, a shinki of yours might well have been concerned about that, then.

[heartshutter]

Eheh...

[ How does he put this... ]

I don't think Shouhei would have been the type to be concerned about it.

[ He didn't even ever learn about Johan, so how could he? ]

[reformedsinner]

But he was trying to set someone up.

[heartshutter]

He was, yes. I don't think it was me, though. Maybe Kusanagi-san? He could do with a wife!

Or a husband. But probably a wife.

...I think.

[reformedsinner]

Izumo? Now that you mention it, he certainly could.

Although you should probably find out which he is looking for first.

[heartshutter]

Aah, if you do that, he'll only tell you he isn't. Kusanagi-san is stubborn that way.

[ ....hold on just a second. He referred to Izumo as Izumo, didn't he? ]

But wait -- you know Kusanagi-san, too?

[reformedsinner]

Yes, he's helped me out at the school. I really don't know where he finds the time, with a business of his own to run!

[heartshutter]

Eheh, well... it's not so hard when that business is almost constantly under repair...

[ but he does love you, King. just... maybe tone it down with all the arson??? ]

[reformedsinner]

I'd heard about the damage Hibari caused, but ... "constantly"?

Did something else happen?

[heartshutter]

"Constantly" is a pretty good word for it, yes.

King is a very hot-tempered person, you see. When he gets upset, things tend to... well, burn down.

Usually it's nothing serious; but the bar happens to be having an especially rough year so far. Heh.

[ how much of this is his own fault for not being there to prevent these fires, he can't say; but he's at least partly responsible, as the Red Lion's absentee tamer, for letting these things happen by being away. ]

[reformedsinner]

That's a very unfortunate temper indeed. It must be difficult on Izumo to clean up after it.

[heartshutter]

I don't know how he keeps up with it, really! But, King is King -- for better, or for worse.

[reformedsinner]

I suppose so! But you make that sound like a title and not a name...?

Or am I misunderstanding you?

[heartshutter]

It's both, actually!

[ only to this one person, however. ]

[reformedsinner]

Ah, so it's King King!

[heartshutter]

Eheh, more or less!

[reformedsinner]

Rarely does a name represent its owner so well.

... in any case, I'm sorry to hear he's been so troublesome lately.