Shoot Your Shot, Idiot

[mansbestend]

Sender: Denji
To: Everyone
Subject: Heads up?

[The top of the page is... weird. It's stained red at the top corner, and it was creeping in about an inch or two before it stopped. Touching it does nothing as it just feels like paper. Someone spilled ink. Or something. Hours later, there's writing:]


its me again
no ass-kicking requests this time, sorry to disappoint
I wanna try lookin for a friend who shows up in my dreams sometimes so its dreamwalk time

dont know how its gonna go, but if you see alleys or bits of Tokyo sometime soon that's me, ignore it

also if you're a lazy fuck and want lunch, dinner, groceries or coffee delivered to your place, write to me. givin part-time work a shot. i can take your stuff over, or if you want my dog can bring it. i mean, who doesn't want a cute dog bringin them coffee, right?

Maple Leaf is really big but she's nice. likes people.

anyway thats all I got.

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Sender: Denji
To: Octavia of the Ars Goetia
Subject: [Untitled]

[This is written really tiny. Super fuckin' tiny, and in a corner of the page. He went out of his way to try and sneak this over-]

hey so if you're not busy sometime, would you be down for hangin out goin out on some stuff?

[Fuck. This was harder than he thought.]

Comments

sender: percy jackson

[judoflipped]

did you spill red win on the page or something before you started writing

[mansbestend]

nah, I was bleeding

[judoflipped]

do i wanna know why

[mansbestend]

I'm a bag of blood and there are monsters in the woods?

I'm not dead so it's fine

[judoflipped]

i dont think you could write if you were dead
but idk it might be different here bc of dream world and everything

[mansbestend]

true. back home I died a whole shit ton of times.

Sucks that it hurt every time.

[judoflipped]

well yeah
dying kinda sucks
they kept letting you out of the underworld or something?

[mansbestend]

nah, been to Hell once and that sucked dick

if I get ripped apart I can make chains to pull it all back together

you get used to how much it hurts after it happens a bunch of times

sender: Octavia

[systemofadowny]

(On a first read through, it read simply enough. Just hanging out with Denji like they regularly do. But with all the scratched out bits in place just to ask to do stuff, it made her wonder. Then a thought comes to mind that delays her response.

What would make it so hard to just ask to hang out? It's normal for them to. Unless...it's not just a normal hangout? Oh sweet Satan, is he asking her out? Is she officially at that point in her life? Okay, Octavia, don't freak out. Don't make it weird. He's a friend! And this is just...a normal thing. Right?)

Yeah! There's plenty of stuff to do!

(Fuck, are the exclamation marks too much? Is this really something she's worrying about now? Funny how after the past few months, she finally has a reminder that she's still a teenager.)

Like hang out somewhere until we get bored and hang out somewhere else.

[mansbestend]

[Search him. He's kinda flying by the seat of his pants here, as there's no real wrong way to... wait, there's plenty of wrong ways to ask someone out... whatever. Fuck it. Brain still healing.

HOLY SHIT IS THAT AN AFFIRMATIVE?? He needed a minute to finish choking on his late breakfast that decided to head down the wrong tube before scrambling up the quill.]

hell yeah! reverein's huge and there's still places we haven't been to that shouldn't shoo us off for ~*loitering*~

we can grab take out wherever you want. is tomorrow night OK?

Sender: Gokudera

[bakudan_bambino]

I’m not a lazy fuck. I just live in a treehouse and would like coffee delivered. I doubt your dog could climb, or is that wrong?

Do you already have a job aside from the part-time work you’re looking for?

Sender : chalcedony

[virtues]

Next time you go on an adventure that requires fighting call for me. I'm a knight and I'm used to exploring dangerous places.

[mansbestend]

I hunt nightmares and yank people outta bad dreams

For a delivery, I can work sumthin out

[mansbestend]

yeah?

do you fight like dragons and evil wizards?

[bakudan_bambino]

Blitzo told me I should talk to some person named Dante about working for him. You’re one of their employees?

Where are you getting the coffee from?

[mansbestend]

Yeah. Dante's a tall dude, white hair, red coat. Can't miss him but I can let him know you're askin- you go by Gokudera?

Coffee can come from wherever you want in Reverein, I know the spots. Dunno what kinda coffee you want tho

[bakudan_bambino]

Alright, I’ll keep my eyes peeled. That’d be appreciated a lot if you could, and yeah.

Something that’d make a good espresso. Been to a few nice coffee places. Dreambucks has some good medium roast.

Sender: Sleeping Beauty

[ibarahime]

Is the dog the noisy kind?

[mansbestend]

She can be chatty with me since I can talk to dogs, but she's OK with a quiet delivery if I ask

[mansbestend]

Got it

Gimme directions from the center of town and I've got you in half an hour

[ibarahime]

In that case, it might be okay to ask for you or the dog to bring me something to eat, as long as it's not too noisy of a delivery.

[There's a pause, and then...]

Um, what's a good place to order from here that you would recommend?

[mansbestend]

I've been everywhere, so it's all in what you're hungry for

Baked stuff, sandwiches, soup, coffee and tea...

[ibarahime]

I think I'd want something light that's easy to digest. Or something that will let me sleep good after.

[Which might explain her previous inquiry about making sure the dog would be quiet...

... Nevermind the fact that it's like noon right now?]

[mansbestend]

OK. I think I know where to go

Leave me directions to where you are from the center of town and I got you in half an hour

[virtues]

Of course, it's the will of a knight to defend the weak.

In my world there are monsters known as Xeroms and they're not to be taken lightly.

What battles have you experienced yourself?