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[arsenist]

hoping this is the only time we need this but I'm setting it up just in case

edit 2/9: so. as it turns out, Past Yama was very wrong,

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[riskybeenus]

Kyaha! Next time tell 'em your ass is used.

[Since it's a virgin auction and all. Teenagers have been active, from what he knows of the city. They probably got more action than--

Anyway.]

So how'd they rope ya into that, daddy-o?

[arsenist]

Not sure if telling them I'm used goods will work, since that's how I ended up there in the first place. [Not that he is anyway, but... Well. That's definitely not important right now.] Apparently I just... "have the look".

[Akira isn't sure what it is, really, but apparently he's got something about him that screams "virgin". Unfortunate.]

Feels a lot more like bad luck than anything, though.

[riskybeenus]

What look? A highschooler?

[Maybe that's what they're into? He peers at his face, squinting for a moment, before he grins and taps the glasses. He could just take it off, but he doesn't know his new companion that well yet. He's not risking getting mauled in case he's anything like Kohaku.]

Take these off, won'tcha?

[arsenist]

I just traded in for these...

[His shoulders hunch, uneasy. Even before his other clothing shenanigans, his replacement glasses were something he made a beeline for the moment he found out they were in Love Dove. It's... still really hard, to not cover up his eyes. He can with his friends, but with someone he's barely met...

Too intense. Too scary. They pierce right through you. A criminal's eyes, apparently. These were the kinds of things he heard from people he'd gone to school with his entire life and total strangers in the one he transferred to alike.

He won't say any of that, though.]

You think I'll look older without them?

[riskybeenus]

[Hmm? That's a strange reaction. Not wrong, exactly, because he didn't have to do it for Rinne, but the way he hunches is easily felt in this hold.

It makes him curious.]

Kyahaha~ are ya trying to look young? Don't tell me ya actually are a father. I wanna see if the kid would be as cute as ya.

[arsenist]

[It's not the worst distraction tactic; Akira snorts without really meaning to.]

You should decide if you want to flirt with me or my kid first, apparently.

[This guy... Akira has to wonder what's really up with him.]

They're not for looking young, though. Mine were missing when I woke up here, so I used one of my clothing vouchers for a new pair at Love Dove.

[Neatly dodging the answer and the fact that he doesn't even need these to see. A two for one special.]

[riskybeenus]

Ain't it obvious?

[He snickers, but he doesn't exactly clarify, so it's up to Akira to make his own conclusion. Instead, he turns the words around his head, the choice of words curious.]

So it ain't got a prescription?

[Do people just buy glasses at a clothing store?]