013 ☀ Phantom Thieves, Magilou

[jokered]

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[spinatalltale]

[AUGH!!!]

[she sinks lower in her seat, tugging the hood over her head and pulling it shut because NO, SHE IS NOT READY FOR THE COFFEE SIBLING TAG-TEAM]

Ugh. I feel like I caught cooties, or something.

[virtuale]

[Futaba sticks her tongue out at Magilou.]

Good, because I caught a case of the TMIs from your spit-swapping earlier.

[Futaba???]

[jokered]

[futaba...]

I think that might be a minor exaggeration.

[spinatalltale]

[SUDDENLY]

[LEANS FORWARD]

[until her face is like]

[centimeters from Akira]

[like she's gonna kiss him again]

[Magilou no, cut the PDA!!]

[virtuale]

[Magilou no.

Yeah Futaba is just burying her hands in her arms and--]

Ewwwwwwwww. [So drawn out, so rude.]

[jokered]

[rude, futaba.

even if akira seems content to not gross her out too much—instead, while not moving his face, he just reverses the roles a bit with magilou...

and grabs her nose lightly.

ha! take that!]

[spinatalltale]

[WOW]

-- hey! Don't steal my schtick!

[she protests in a very nasally voice. RETRIBUTION]

[virtuale]

[Yeah, Futaba's just snorting softly.

Bwaha.

Which she might actually have said out loud, under her breath. Like a nerd.]

[jokered]

I'm a thief.

[casually!]

If I've already stolen your heart, all that's left is to steal your schtick.

[at least this should continue to be entertaining for futaba...?]

[spinatalltale]

[pinches his cheeks!! and stretches them out sort of like she was with Bienfu earlier, only less painfully]

You do know this means war, right?

[virtuale]

[Oh my god.

Futaba just rolls her eyes at this display, and then:]

So...what. Murder happened, and you picked up a witch girl from it?

[Weirdo.]

It's not like that's a very romantic setting.

[jokered]

Don't you know what war is good for?

[absolutely nothing, tbh.

so he turns his attention back to futaba, shrugging even as magilou is pulling at his cheeks. why is he like this?]

It wasn't. [a romantic setting, that is.] I guess you can say... the high stakes of the situation changes things, though. I didn't think it would happen either, but... it did.

[spinatalltale]

[why are they both like this, poor Futaba. YANKS ON HIS CHEEKS SOME MORE]

Honestly, I think he heard me call myself unshippable and took it up as a personal challenge.

[. . . she jokes]

[virtuale]

He should know better, fandom always takes the unshippable ones and runs with it.

[She doesn't even miss a beat with that. And then, to Akira:]

Oh well. If you like her that much, I guess it's fine.

[Shrug!!]

I can tolerate. [Probably.]

[jokered]

I think she proved herself plenty shippable.

[just saying.]

But I'm glad to have the Oracle seal of approval anyway.

[spinatalltale]

[stops pinching Akira's cheeks and just. settles herself against his shoulder. hmph]

Only tolerate. . .

[virtuale]

[A shrug.]

Tolerate. Maybe, maaaaybe "accept", depending on how things go and how annoying you are.

No promises though.

[jokered]

Futaba has high standards. Don't take it too personally.

[akira still accepts her, so it's probably fine.]

[spinatalltale]

[it's fine!1 Magilou seems to accept this for what it is despite the faux pouting earlier]

Uho! Challenge mode, accepted!

[virtuale]

[........ ... ...]

Eh.

[Eh!!

A point.]

You're 500 years too early to face me, Akira's girlfriend!

[jokered]

[akira's just going to sit back for a second and let them duke this one out.

of course, akira also has no idea about magilou's relative immortality so like. that 500 years thing might get dicey? whatever, it's cool.

he's entertained, at least.]

[spinatalltale]

[. . . WELL]

[SHE CERTAINLY ISN'T BRINGING IT UP WITH FUTABA AROUND]

Oh, please! I've fought and conquered a dragon. Bosses don't get much more difficult than that!

-- or are you a midboss?

[virtuale]

I'm unimpressed by your dragon-sized boasts!!

[HA!!]

I'm a bonus boss.

[jokered]

Ultra powered-up. She's got all the buffs.

[or.

something like that.]

[spinatalltale]

I've got something better: the power of the Normin Queen!

[NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THAT IS]