kuranosuke + akira

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[Kuranosuke is so valid. Awkwardly, Akira glances around the bar, then finally ends up sitting down.]

I thought it'd be quiet. I mean, I thought no one would be here.

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Oh.

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Well, uh. I'm here! Is that a problem?

[akira is allowed to say yes.]

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[STOP. He's a good boy.]

Oh, uh... no. It's fine. [He... motions to the drink.] Go ahead.

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[DRINKS.]

...eugh. So, how are you holding up? And be honest.

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[He opens his mouth. "Be honest." He closes his mouth. It takes him a minute to try to figure out how to say he's hanging on by a thread.]

Not great, but... I've been through worse. What about you?

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This is totally craptacular, but I'll get through it.

[with


alcohol, apparently.]

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[KURANOSUKE, PLEASE.]

Should... you be drinking so much? You need to have some water in between.

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But then I'll sober up and actually have to think about all this!

[he shrugs]

I've been drinking a little water. I don't want to, like, double-die of dehydration. That'd be a real dumb way to go. But I definitely don't wanna be sober in hell, either.

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[Really out here with valid points which Akira cannot refute.]

Maybe you should be able to go on ahead and battle Satan then. [He gets back up.] I'll get you some water.

You should probably eat too.

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That's the plan! I'm working on my tolerance. I'm gonna drink Satan under the table, for sure!

...thanks. You're a real nice guy, Akira.

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[Imagine this place is filled with nothing but booze (no). He will dig around on the search for some water, but not venture too far.]

You don't think Satan is going to try tricking you?

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Oh, he absolutely will. That's, like, what Satan does, right? But if I don't even challenge him 'cause I'm scared I'll lose or he'll trick me, there's a zero percent chance anything will change.

If I give it my best shot, the chance is at least higher than zero, even if it's still low.

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[Hm.

After a moment, he comes back with some water to put down by Kuranosuke.]

Why do you want to win? To go back?

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...

[he's too sober for this question, actually. he buys himself some time by drinking the water.]

It's no grand, big thing like some others have. I just want to live again. I was moving in with some friends, and I'd finally gotten back in contact with my mom after not knowing where she was for years. I'm not ready to just give that up yet.

What about you?

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Seeing your parents after a long time is nice.

[His smile is faint and bittersweet. About Kuranosuke’s circumstance, that is. It seems too rude to ask how Kuranosuke got here if that was the case, so he doesn’t.

Again, he sits back down, but won’t look at Kuranosuke directly.]

I don’t know if I want to go back actually.

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What?

[kuranosuke looks startled]

But you're way too nice to just be stuck in hell forever! Frankly, I don't even get how you ended up here at all.

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[lol]

Thanks, but… there just isn’t anything for me to go back to.

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[look i'm canonblind as fuck here i'm assuming he's actually satan or something since your canon is called devilman crybaby and he's been crying everywhere]

...well, if you win that drinking game, you wanna come back with me? I could introduce you to my friends.

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[i love this for me

LOOK. He does not expect this answer out if literally anyone here except maybe Ryo, so it startles him enough to get him to glance up.]

You don’t even know me… What if I’m not the person you think I am?

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I'm not gonna get to know you any better if you stay here and hell and I head back to Tokyo!

[kuranosuke shrugs.]

Tokyo's a big city. If it turns out we don't get along after we get out of here, you can just do your own thing. But there's no reason why any of us should just have to languish in hell for all eternity. Honestly, I think there was some kind of paperwork screwup. Soldier Boy was a child murdering dickhead, but we're not all that bad.

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[Hearing this stuns him into an awkward silence. Yikes. He looks away over the bar, wondering now if that is why Kuranosuke had been so loud and so bold.]

I don’t think that’s true, [he finally says, gentle.] No, I know that isn’t true because I know the things I’ve done. Most of us probably deserve to be here.

A lot of people didn’t even really care Hunter was dead at the start. What he did wasn’t right, but… most of the people feeling proud of calling Bucky a monster have probably done something just as bad to get here. If Bucky is a murdering dickhead, so am I.

So don’t let someone being nice or on your side fool you, okay?

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[kuranosuke is just drunkenly math lady memeing as he tries to reconcile akira's cryfests with akira straight up murdering someone]

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[haha...........

He fidgets a lil.]

I won't hurt you.

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I didn't think you would in the first place...

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Are you... also a soldier or something?

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[Awkwardly, he rubs the back of his head and neck.]

No... nothing like that. I'm just a high school student. Was... a high school student.