Dank Darkwick - student-dorms

Finally... A peace... I can finally play my guitar without anyone interrupting me... Hopefully that captain is not chasing me down again to spar... BBRRR!!

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Leo strolls into the room and unplugs Youko's amp before he even gets a chance to start strumming. "There you are Bloody Mary ! Was looking all over for you. I'm starting to think you're avoiding me." The vice-captain puckers his lip into a pout.

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Youko's body senses a shiver under his spine when hearing a familiar annoying voice behind him. He is slowly facing back to the voice owner as he stops playing with his guitar "Shitty Influencer... The fuck you want?" His eyes darken while facing the so-called Vagastrom vice captain. A hint of annoyance drives him crazy.

Leo lifts his phone up and points at the screen. A video plays of random people dancing, with a familiar tune. "One of your old songs is kinda regaining traction back on Tiktok. I know you're like, hated and everything 'cause of that scandal, but some of my followers still simp over you anyway. So I need you to get up and record a dance video with me, vice-captain's orders."

"Youko's eyes widened as he hears the familiar sounds again, but his expression changes again and feels irritated by Leo's command.* "Why would I dance with you for damn content?... You think your vice-captain role scares me? I don't give any fuck of that" He's not facing Leo again and focus himself to tune his guitar.

"Oh...? You're refusing?" Leo tilts his head and raises an eyebrow. "You reeeally sure you wanna do that?"

what are we doing boys?

Reply to: @Leo Kurosagi (@STINKY MF) "Oh...? You're refusing?" Leo tilts his head and raises an eyebrow. "You reeeally sure you wanna do that?"

"of course I refuse... Who the fuck are you anyway? You're just a shitty Influencer, not my mom."

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Reply to: @Christine (@Yuri's other partner) what are we doing boys?

Leo looks over at Christine, just having noticed her presence. He wonders passively what she's doing here, but doesn't question it out loud. Blackmailing the ex-idol took precedence after all. The vice-captain shrugs. "I just decided I'll be posting some of my findings, while the has been tries to figure out how to use his amp." Just before entering the room, Leo had anticipated Youko's refusal. He had already switched off the fuse to the outlets in the room, making it impossible for Youko to use for the time being.

Youko's face got pale when Leo was about to dox him again. "WAIT!!... Fine I'll do it!..." *Youko scoff, cursing under his breath "Fuck you, Shitty Influencer... You're lucky this time..."

can I join???

"This is none of your business... Unless you want to be humiliated so much by this shitty ass person." He said while facing Leo

oh I know he is shit, he has done alot of damage to so many around him that more like me have been created because of him hehe

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Leo flashes a grin, blatantly ignoring the negative commentary thrown his way. "The more the merrier! Let's all rehearse the steps together, it's sooo easy. Should be child's play for an ex-idol." The vice-captain searches for the bookmark he set for the tutorial.

can't wait to see you both fail!

Youko's scoff a bit, well it's really easy for him to dance it away. He watches Leo's movements but those are all wrong in his eyes "Move influencer... That's not how you dance on my song! Let me show you the real one", he put his guitar away and started moving his own body, showing them how to dance it properly

Leo hums, watching Youko's movements studiously. As he continues to dance, the vice-captain sets his phone up on a portable stand a few meters away from him and hits the record button.

matches the moves perfectly

Youko watch Leo and ask "we recording it right now?"

"Yeah, just keep doing what you're doing. I'm gonna use multiple clips. Don't worry-- I'll be joining in soon."

you better be

"I don't trust that, I know you're gonna use the clips as blackmail-" he said as he stopped dancing.

puts a base form Morgan on Seiya's bed

Seiya returns looking kinda of drained. “Hey guys so I have to go to work soon, make sure the door is locked after I leave.” ’Why do I suddenly feel the need to check my room for cameras? Nah I’m being paranoid.’ Seiya opens his closet, frowning a little bit when he remembered that some of his clothes were missing because of Leo. He picked up his work uniform and waved them goodbye before leaving the room. (edited)

Will do

awakens ... where the actual fuck am I?

Seiya returns to his room to install the locks on his door. "Hey, you doing alright?"

hm? oh yeah I'm fine- they quickly shift into their perferd form thank you for takeing me in on short notice

"Yeah, no problem! Anyway, gotta install some locks. You're feeling good enough to go back to your room? I could get you some water if you need."

I'm much better now, I can help you with that door if you want as thanks-

"You know how to work locks? Sure, I'll take any help I can get"

it dosen't look too hard and you seem to have all the tools

"Alright." He hands over the lock. "Show me what you can do."

in an hour figures out how to put the lock in

"Ooh, nice! Thank you!"

of course! I am glad I could help!

"Alright, you might wanna get outta here since I have to go somewhere soon, thanks for helping out!"

course! see you around! they head off into the either/j

Seiya locks up his room before leaving

"Calm down now, Crow- we are searching for help right now-"

"I want to go backkkkk QAQ!!!"

"Now now... I have to find Seiya's body... You wait here, okay? I'll be back soon, okay?" It was weird telling Edward what to do... Well... He's not clearly Edward... But still-

"Okay... :("

Youko nod his head and walk out from his dorm "The fuck is happening today?" He grunted himself as he walked to Seiya's room.

Finx woke up and found himself...well not himself anymore, Finx been having a panic attack for a good amount of hours After managed to calm himself down, and having to deal with staring at his now reflection, he finally dressed up and ready to face the outside world...

10:41 PM

I'm fine this is fine help

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10:47 PM

I need to find a way back to Mortkranken...they should know how to...turn me back??? leaves Seiya's room and trying to find his way through unfimilar territory

The real Seiya was already looking for him in Vagastrom, trying to find out who is in his body. "HEY WAIT!!"

freezes immediately ???

"Who are you?? I'm the owner of... your current body by the way. Seiya. You know me?"

Alan stops. He sees an oddly put together Seiya, and some blonde standing in the hallways.

walks on scene with Alan/Finx and see Seiya and that blonde frosthime student. “What’s happening here? Seiya?”

um...uh I'm Finx?? What's happening here???

Oh you’re finx? I’m in your body.

“Finx!!” She hugs him “ I was so worried about you”

"You know this guy?"

Are you Mairo?? Hovering hands above Mairo's back Ah that's complicate things even more...

Alan clears his throat. Trying to capture Finx’s attention.

“yeah….um what your name again I’ve seen you at frosthime…”

11:03 PM

lets go of Finx

"Ok I'm the real Seiya, but I'm in Jo's body. Jo Waker?"

Oh Seiya. You good? Alan nods at him

“Seiya?! Of wow this is interesting. Oh so that’s her name,” she circles around Seiya/jo

"I was kinda stressed out over not knowing what the fuck was happening to my body for the past few hours..."

oh yeah my body...it's kinda weird to see in others perspective Finx looks at his body, not sure if this is a good time to have existential crisis Who are you??

Alan Mido. Vagastorm captain

“I mean Finx is mortranken so he is all the medical stuff” she stops in between Seiya/jo and Finx/seiya

11:08 PM

“your body is okay hands is what I mean”

Ah...captain Starts to get scared by his own body, how??! Other than questioning my mental health nothing much happened! Oh and a little rummage through your closet, Seiya right?

Alan looks away, sighing before looking back at Finx in Seiya’s body. He nervously rubs the back of his neck, before speaking, So I might’ve accidentally ripped your clothes, and pulled a couple muscles, as well as caused a few bruises… He clears his throat Sorry about that

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Ah...noted ~~at least I'm not dead~~

Seiya looks at his body up and down. "No, yeah, if Mairo trusts you then I'm sure you're fine." He smiles a bit. "Maybe I should wear my hair in a ponytail more often."

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11:14 PM

"Did you have fun looking through my closet?"

she looks at Finx/seiya “I found Alan looking for you so the worst he’s done is worked on a car.” turns to seiya/jo “Yeah he’s chill. Umm sorry for hugging you.”

Seiya blinked. "? Oh, yeah I don't really care, I'm chill with that."

It was kinda difficult to look for formal wears in your closet...but I managed, so fun yes you could say that looks at his own body again, wide eyes so that's why you look- wait I look? Like that?? Work on car??

Yeah sorry. Alan looks down and notices he’s covered in grease and sweat. In one word, he looks awful. I’ll clean and repair your clothes for you.

she leans in to Seiya/jo watching the finx Alan exchange “to answer your question. yes you definitely should wear your hair like that.”

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"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind."

It's alright, you don't need to apologise...not like any of us plan for this to happened anyway... So people been swapping bodies? Have anyone figure how to fix this yet?

Haven’t heard anything solutions yet

11:26 PM

any*

“ah no that’s why I was I. Mortranken in the first place.” crosses arms thinking “this is so weird and then there was that god awful smoke in Hotarubi”

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11:27 PM

at**

Right...I was going to Mortkranken as well, didn't think I'd see myself here first

“your lucky you found yourself….you to Seiya.”

Does anyone else hear someone crying?

11:36 PM

I’m going to go check it out

yeah I think that’s Ed

Obsuary’s captain?

“umm well I think it’s crow in Ed”

Alan feels, now even more so, that he should go check in what’s going on in the main hall. He turns to leave

11:39 PM

Crow? He wracks his brain trying to remember who that is. Oh that pipsqueak

11:39 PM

I’m going to check in on them

looks at Finx/seiya “so you’re heading back to mortranken?”

I think so? Now that I know I got you to look over my fragile body... whispers to Mairo ...please I don't want to be hospitalize after this

chuckles a bit “trust me I’m trying but Alan is stubborn he does however realize he has limits in your body though and is trying” looks to Seiya/jo “I’ll take it you’re going with your body?“

"I guess so? Ah shit, wait I need to call out from work. Um, Finx right? Could you...?"

“okay good. Well got to go Alan-sit talk soon” runs off

Oh um I didn't bring your phone, it should still be in your room... I didn't want to pry, and there's ton of notifications

"Alright, it's fine." Seiya returned to his room and scrolled through all the notifications before going to his contact list and calling his work. He returned to Finx, holding the phone up to his mouth. "Ok so I just need you to say, 'Good afternoon, I'm feeling sick today so I can't come into work.' Is that alright?"

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Right... deep breath Uh- good afternoon, I'm not feeling well today, so I'm not going to be able to make it in today voice coming out higher than intended and Finx almost bit his tongue ...is that alright?

Seiya return the phone to his ear and listened, after a while he nodded and gave Finx a thumbs up. "Ok now I need a 'Thank you, bye.'" He held the phone up to Finx again.

Thank you, bye, have a nice day- bites his tongue for real this time

He raises his eyebrows at Finx's wince before hanging up on his phone. "Shit, you okay?"

I'm fine, sorry just bit your tongue aaaaaa it felt weird, screaming dying internally

"Yeah, split tongue took a while to get used to. Don't worry about it, it's been through worse."

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Finx eyes filled with questions but he's not sure if he wants to know the answer ????

"The biting I mean, it's not as bad as getting your tongue literally split in half. Sorry, should've clarified."

Yeah okay right of course... *realizes he has no phone at the moment * I should have asked for my phone from your captain

"Oh, right, so basically we have to sleep it off." He hands the phone to Finx "Feel free to take a shower or something, just sleep in my room. You can keep the door unlocked since Zero, or... uh... Zero in Alan's body is gonna drop by soon. Anyways I have to go, nice meeting ya." He goes back to frostheim

takes seiya's phone and nods before making his way to seiya's room Great...now I have to deal with sleeping in unfamiliar places... What if I can't sleep?! and someone dropping by soon??!! Should I just knock myself out?!!?!

huffs it back to Vaga “Finx. You gonna be okay?”

contemplating between bed headboard and a desk...

knocks on Seiyas door Finx you asleep already?

Oh hello Mairo...help which do you think will cause less damage? gestures between bed headboard and the desk

Zero arrives in Vagastrom, arms full of a PC setup received from Kamiyama. He knocks on Seiya's door

“um I don’t know I could punch you…I don’t really want to.”

aaaaaa someone's here panics and flops on the floor

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He knocks again "Hello....? Seiya...? Or are you still Finx?"

fainted, ~~dead~~

He knocks a third time. "Look I asked Seiya and he said I could drop off some stuff at his room. I'm gonna come in ok?"

umm okay opens door

"Oh hi... um. Mairo, right? I think we've interacted on Wickhive. I'm Zero. Well actually I'm Alan but, y'know. Body swap shit," He walks in to see what looks like Seiya flopped onto the floor. "Uhh.... right.... I'm just gonna....." He steps over Seiya's body and places the PC setup on the desk "I'm uh... gonna go sleep in Alan's bed now, since that seems to be the thing to fix the swap..."

Mai walks back and starts to lift Finx/Seiya and put him into bed with ease. “Sorry had to deal with this.”

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"Thanks for taking care of my boyf—Seiya's body." He leaves.

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awe no problem

1:29 AM

tucks finx in and leaves seiyas room “Okay.” she deadpans “I need t-time .” leaves to go to frosthime

Saki knocks on Seiya' door before stepping back to prepare and wait for him to open the door. She hadn't told him that she would be showing up because she wanted to surprise him. Once he opens the door she does a running jump. "SEIYA!!"

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"SAKI?? What are you doing here??" He caught her mid jump and spun her around for a second before setting her back down on the floor. "Mortkraken..?"

"Yup," she shows off her pin. "Certified nurse, looking to expand my education. But enough about me, let's talk about you~!!" She grabs him by the collar and yanks him down to her level. "WHY DID YOU NEVER TELL ME ANYTHING BITCH???? THE ANOMALY SHIT AND THE GHOUL THING??? I THOUGHT I KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU, YOU TRAITORRRR!!"

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He panics a bit at her volume and covers her mouth before pulling her inside his room. "Holy shit, Saki, okay, wait, hold on, I'll explain."

Saki pulls away from him and looks around the room, a smug look forms on her face. "Aww, how cute, doesn't this look familiar? It looks a lot like my room~!" She wanders around for a bit before sitting on his bed. "You don't have to explain anything. You made a pact for your voice right? 'The shock of your sister dying' sounded suspicious anyway." She kicks her feet.

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Seiya gives her a sad look. "...Right, yeah sorry. Couldn't bring her back from the dead, haha. Um," He scratches his head. "I didn't really expect you to believe me? Demons and anomalies? Who the hell would believe that?"

"So you're a ghoul, right?" She grins. "What's your stigma? And artifact? Wassit do?"

"I'm like Ursula now or something, I can steal and use your voice." He smiles. "And my artifact is a guitar, can't use it like a regular guitar, though." He pulls it off his keychain and sits next to her to show it off. "Could break your eardrums, also sturdy enough to be used like a bat." He lets her hold it for a moment.

Saki holds up the artifact keychain and laughs a little. "Aww, how cute. And ironic. I know you can't play the guitar." She hands it back and pulls out hers. "I got this silly little needle here~ If you feel like doing drugs I gotcha." She twirls the syringe around in her fingers. "Or not, haven't used it yet. I dunno what it does."

11:52 AM

She puts it back in her pocket and grins. "Okay, try me."

"... Excuse me?"

"Your stigma. I wanna see it."

"Uhh, just so you know. You won't be able to talk when I'm using it."

"Don't care, try me."

"...Well, alright. Salaur." He waits for a moment, expecting to see Saki try to speak and be surprised and giggle silently over how she can't before he uses her voice. "Hi hi~!! Saki here~ <3"

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Saki would be laughing right now, well, she looks like shes laughing but no sound is coming out. Seiya's face matched with her voice was a weird ass combination. She signed 'How long does it last?'

"Ummm, likeee" He mirrored her way of speaking. "I guess until my throat runs dry? I can technically keep using it but it dries out my throat really bad, sooo, also water barely does shit."

Saki 'giggled' before signing, 'Can you sing?' (edited)

He gave her a look of disgust. "Do NOT ask me to do that, you know I can't."

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"Stop that."

"....." "...n-neko funjatta neko funjatta neko funzu..ke chattara h-hikkaita, neko hikkaita, n-n..."

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She's laughing really hard but since you can't hear anything she hit the bed to express her enjoyment instead. After a while she gets disgusted with her own voice because ew Seiya fucking sucks at singing and signs, 'Alright that's enough. Gimmie back my voice'

After releasing Saki's voice back to its rightful owner, he stood up to get water while Saki cackled in the background. "Okay, tell me why I never heard about you trying to transfer here."

"I wanted it to be a surpriseeee," she pouts "Aren't you surpriiiiiised?? I studied my fucking ass off to get here, literally an academic weapon hehehe~"

"Don't you already have a nursing degree? You work as a certified nursing assistant don't you?"

"Girl, why do you think I still work at that pizza place? Do you think I enjoy wiping shit and puke? I changed my mind." She flops back on his bed. "Doctors basically are rank-up nurses. And this one bitch thinks she's hot shit just because she went to a private university. Newsflash asshole, we're in the same fucking place. Imagine boasting about going to a private college when your coworkers got in the same position from community college. Dumb bitch. But yeah, I wanna be a doctor."

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"...so... you just wanna be a doctor because you hate someone."

"Pettiness is my fuel, I thought you knew me.... crieee

" She stands up. "Okayyyy I'm done here~ Gotta go finish unpacking." She combs through Seiya's hair before kissing his cheek. "Remember to come visit my room!! I'll be waiting." *She leaves.

Zero knocks on Seiya's door, bouquet in hand. He's mumbling to himself. "This is stupid. This is so fucking stupid. Oh my god this is so stupid. Holy fuck I'm glad I introduced myself to Saki before coming over. Holy shit."

Seiya opens the door. "Hey! Come in!" He steps to the side to let Zero in, glancing down at the bouquet in Zero's hand.

Zero enters and sets the bouquet down on the desk making no comment about it. "Ah fuck, I should've brought a box to put all this stuff in. Last time I carried it all I was in Alan's body." He squints at the pile of computer stuff as if trying to size up how to carry it.

"I mean i could help you out? Could also try finding a box to put it in." He looks at the bouquet again.

"No. No it's ok. Thanks. I've got it." He awkwardly piles his arms with all the gear and then looks to the bouquet. Fuck. Why hadn't he left it at his dorm before coming over? He'd dropped off the bouquet from Chihiro after all. "Uh... would you be willing to just.. toss that on top of what I'm holding. Should be fine."

"The bouquet?" He walks over and picks it up. Instead of throwing on the pile he hold onto it, spinning it around to examine the flowers. "Aw, here I was, thinking it was for me."

Zero nearly drops the pile of computer stuff. "Um. Well. About that. It um. It is. For you. Was. For you. Um." Until Saki told me you two were married. He finishes the sentence in his head.

"And you're not giving it to me because...?"

Zero groans and deposits the pile of computer stuff back into the corner. He gestures to the photos of Seiya and Saki on the wall "Because you're taken and I apparently I was too fucking stupid to realize that. So I don't think bouquets and declarations of feelings are a great idea considering the circumstances."

"I'm not, though? What did Saki tell you??"

He opens up his phone and shows Seiya their chat. "She said you guys were platonically married."

"....You know what platonic means right?"

"Uh, yeah? But just in case, remind me."

Seiya gives him the most disappointed look he can muster. "It means friendship. As in not romantic. Oh my fucking god, Zero, use context clues." He points at his ring finger. "Do you see a ring here?" He points at Saki in the pictures. "Do you see her wearing a ring?" He points at a very specific photo where Seiya is taking a selfie and pointing at Saki making out with a blurry figure in the background. "If we were romantically involved why would I have that on my wall? Not only that but she publically mentioned want to fuck Mido. Zero....." Seiya is holding back the strongest urge to call him stupid rn.

Zero feels the sudden weight of his sheer stupidity come crashing down all at once. "Oh my god. I'm a fucking idiot." His mind flashes back to all the times he'd spent snuggled up to Jo watching a movie. All of her teasing. Hell, they made jokes all the time about dating each other if they'd been compatible. "But she ... she got mad when I said you were her friend, I thought..."

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"She was joking... She just likes to scare people like that. She gets mad at me for the same thing." He took a breath before mimicking her voice. "Just a FRIEND?? I literally took you in when you were homeless!! Oh my goddd, You're such a fake I thought we were closer than that, fuck you I'm never doing your nails againnn. I'm gonna tell my mom that you died in an accident or something. We're like candle wax melted together and you call me JUST A FRIEND??? Loll ok anyways I got these new bow shaped charms-" He resumed in his normal voice. "Is what she likes to say."

Zero blinks. There was a lot to unpack there. Did Seiya say... homeless? Now probably wasn't the time to clarify. "Riiiight... okay. That makes sense. So why not just say like... she's your sister or something? Or cousin? Not that it's any of my business."

"Ew. Sorry, no." He sighs and runs a hand through his hair, here comes the hard part. "We used to date? And then we realized that we aren't like, romantically into each other like that. Even then, calling her my sister is just a little.... you know... it's just kinda gross."

Zero wishes he could explode. He wants Romeo to use his stigma on him right then and there. So he could blow up into a million little pieces. Everything started to click together now that he had the missing puzzle piece. Zero took a deep breath in and sighed. "Holy shit okay. Everything makes SO much more sense now. Yeah no that would be gross. Sorry for even suggesting that." There was an awkward silence. Zero wasn't really sure where to go from there. He'd made an ass of himself and probably made Seiya uncomfortable to boot. "Right well. I'll just grab this stuff and get out of your hair." He starts to move toward the computer pile.

Seiya stops him for a second to give him a kiss on the cheek. "There. A reminder for you."

There it is. That familiar flip of his stomach that happens every time Seiya gets close. "A reminder...? Of what?" His heart is beating, hard.

"That right now, the only person I'm seeing is you." He steps back. "Thanks for the flowers by the way, my favorite color." He smiles.

Zero swallows. Okay. He can do this. It's just a question. Can't be any more embarrassing than anything else he's said today. "Actually I wanted to ask you something about that. That's why I brought the flowers. Um. I wanted to ask. Well unless you're one of those non-monogamous types and that's fine I just. But. Um I was wondering. If you wanted but like no pressure just um asking. Er—" For anyone watching, this is a painful affair. Every God, Anomaly and everything in between is cringing at this awkward mess of a ghoul. "IfYouWantedToMakeThingsOfficial." the sentence ends with a period and not a question mark because if Zero actually outright asks the question, he probably will explode. (edited)

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"...I thought we were already dating?" Seiya tilts his head.

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Zero balks. "Wait... what? Like 'yeah we've been on dates' type dating or like, 'boyfriends' type dating?"

"Like boyfriends type dating? I mean we've been kinda mutually exclusive to each other." He stares blankly at Zero's shocked expression. He bites his lip in an attempt to stop himself from laughing. It didn't really work. "Pfft- s-sorry," Seiya laughs. "I was just messing with you." He laughs for a good minute before he calms down. He holds his arms out and beckons to Zero with his hands. "Okay, come here."

He wants to pout, but he can't. It's pretty much impossible for him to be mad at Seiya. "I mean we hadn't ever like officially put a name to it? Can you blame me?" He walks over to Seiya and lets himself be enveloped in his arms. It was the one place he had felt safe in years. Even if it did mean enduring teasing about his romantic fumblings.

Seiya squeezes Zero in a tight embrace, pressing a kiss on the top of his head. "I know," mwah, "Let's make it offical then."

Zero giggles. He honest to god giggles. He can't help it. He feels like a silly little kid that just got the best birthday present ever. He hugs Seiya back with as equal of intensity as he can muster. "Sooo.... does this mean you'll help me study for Saki's quiz?"

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"...She's quizzing you..? No, wait, I'm not surprised actually. Hmm.." He thinks for a moment, not sure if Zero wants to ask some questions or if he should just guess what questions Saki was about to harass him with. "Well my birthday is December 15th."

"Oh she's definitely quizzing me. But that's good to know... birthdays are important. I probably should have known that one already..." He groans. "She already asked me about your favorite color on wickchat today. And you outed me for not knowing!" he stuck his tongue out at Seiya

Seiya laughed. "It was funny! And also totally a trick question. She knows I don't actually have a favorite color." Seiya put his thumb on Zero's tongue, gently sliding it in his mouth while resting his other fingers under Zero's chin. "Until now, that is."

Zero froze, caught entirely off guard, his face burning hot as he desperately tried to process what was happening. His breath hitched as Seiya’s thumb rested on his tongue. Any semblance of coherent thought he might've had dissolved into nervous excitement. How the fuck did Seiya always know how to undo him? A rather devious thought occurred to him. Maybe he could put Seiya off just a little if he... Zero deliberately closed his lips around Seiya's thumb and gently sucked on it, letting his tongue graze the pad of Seiya's thumb just enough to make it noticeable. His gaze flickered up to meet Seiya's eyes, half-lidded with an attempt at sultry confidence-but there was betraying glint of nervousness in his wide pupils.

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The corners of his mouth curled up and he gently pushed him thumb further into Zero's mouth. His lips parted with a small exhale. "You're good at that, aren't you?"

Oh Seiya had his number fucking dialed, god damn it. But Zero still wanted to try and fluster Seiya. This was his boyfriend now, after all. He let his lashes lower, his lips wrapping more firmly around Seiya's thumb. Slowly, deliberately, he dragged his tongue along the length of it, swirling in a way that could only be described as brazen. He let out a soft hum from the back of his throat, feigning nonchalance but inwardly spiraling into chaos. As Seiya's eyes remained locked on his, Zero leaned slightly forward, tilting his head just enough to send the illusion of control tipping in his favor. When he finally pulled back, lips just barely brushing the tip of Seiya's thumb as it slid free, his voice came out low and teasing, though the heat in his cheeks betrayed his boldness. "Wouldn't you like to find out?" he murmured, his gaze flickering to Seiya's parted lips for a split second before locking eyes with him again. (edited)

Seiya let out a shaky breath as he watched Zero suck at his finger. When he stopped, Seiya trailed his thumb along Zero's lower lip. "I would. What was that you said on our first date? 'Seiya, if I said that I would enjoy being on my knees for you, and you said you weren't imagining anything, you're either a liar or a saint'? I'm imagining it now, what does that make me?"

A sly grin tugged at his lips as he ran his hands along the waistband of Seiya's uniform trousers, his fingers hooking into the belt loops. He tugged gently, walking Seiya backward step by step until the back of his knees hit the edge of the bed. When Seiya sank onto the bed, Zero followed suit, slowly lowering himself to his knees in front of him. His hands rested on Seiya's thighs as he tilted his head up, catching Seiya's gaze with a mix of playful mischief and genuine affection. "I think it makes you my boyfriend."

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[Actually I thought long and hard about what else to possibly add but actually that's a great ending fuck you. We're gonna cut to black you PERVS. Get out of Seiya's room

THEY'RE BUSY

️] [Fine. Fine. You can have a little. As a treat.] [and then zero slobbed all over seiya all silly style I mean I'm talking ebbin on his neezer til he Scrooge. he investigated his case until he found the anomaly type shit

absolutely gawk gawk gawking you know? And they lived happily ever after or at least until the next time Seiya inevitably finds something out about zero. yeah yeah doomed yaoi. Now get the fuck out.]

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1:47 PM

He knocks hesitantly on Seiya's door. He wants to run but he won't.

Seiya opens the door and stands to the side to let him in. "Hey, Zero! Is something wrong...?"

He walks in and takes his usual place sitting on Seiya's bed. "I feel like I'm deceiving you by letting you think I'm a good person."

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Seiya quietly walks over and sits next to Zero. He stays quiet and lets him speak.

He takes a deep breath. Where to start? Not the beginning. That would take too long. He settles on the middle. "I came to Darkwick for protection. For escape. Before I was enrolled I..." I killed people? I was a hitman? I spent most of my time under the thumb of a notorious crime syndicate? "I used my stigma to commit some awful crimes. Things that I can't undo."

Seiya thought for a moment, he was a little afraid to ask. After a moment of silence he opened his mouth. "...What were these crimes..?"

Zero stared a hole into the floor, unable to meet Seiya's gaze. "They involved... taking out specific targets."

Seiya nodded slowly, processing the information he was given. "Taking out targets..." He too began to stare the floor. "Like, a hitman..?"

Zero wished he could turn to stone. Become an inanimate statue that never had to speak again. "Yes. I was a hitman."

He blinked at the floor, thoughts running wildly but he stayed quiet. He looked at Zero, hoping that maybe he was joking or maybe Seiya was misunderstanding the situation. "...Okay."

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Everything in Zero screamed at him to leave. To run. To hide away. But he stayed rooted to the spot. Seiya was a genuinely good fucking person and the least he was owed was some honesty. "Okay." He repeated, not sure what else to even say.

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"Okay, so I'm gonna start thinking outloud." He leaned back a bit to look at the ceiling. "If I knew you as a hitman before I knew you as who you are now..." His voice trailed off as he stared at the ceiling. After a moment of silence, he spoke again. "People's perception on others is so strongly based on first impression. Say there was a person that likes to donate to charity. Then you find out that person also like to kill people for fun. Now let's say there's a killer that kills for fun, but they like to donate to charity. For some reason, the second person sounds better, right? Even though they did the same bad things. Because the original image of them was either betrayed or elevated. When see a bad person do something good, you think that maybe they aren't as bad as you thought. When a good person does something bad, you feel betrayed." Seiya shifts to look at Zero. "I... I'm glad that you trust me enough to tell me this. That's a very brave thing to do... but obviously this... is kind of a lot to process." He tries to make eye contact. "...I can tell you regret it. I know that... it's something you want to leave in the past, and you don't want it to define who you are now." Ending someone's life... ending the lives of multiple people. That's awful. That's a terrible thing to do. How the fuck am supposed to react to that? "I still..." Love? "...you've been through a lot and I want to support you." ... Maybe I need more time to think.

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He gives Seiya a bitter look. Like he tried to smile but it quickly soured. "You always say the most profound things when I least expect it." He swallows something back, not sure if it's a sob or something else. "I know it's a lot to process. And I don't expect you to sort out your feelings about it for my benefit. But if you have any questions, I'm more than willing to be an open book. Otherwise um... I guess that's all I came to say. If you wanna take a break or whatever, I think that's completely justifiable."

"... Thanks for understanding." He looks down at his hands. "...how do you feel about it?"

He hadn't been expecting that. He'd been expecting maybe 'For how long?' or 'How many people?' But this was Seiya. Kind and caring, introspective Seiya. "About what I've done? Or about this conversation?"

"Being a hitman."

"I feel like a coward. I wish I'd been courageous enough to value all those lives above my own. But I was too afraid. Too afraid to say no like I should have. But I'm not deflecting responsibility. I did what I did. And it was wrong."

"... what would've happened if you said no?"

"I'd have been out of a job. And probably shot. You don't really get to walk away when you're approached about something like that. That's why I'm here. They can't touch me while I'm at Darkwick. Like I said, I'm a coward."

Seiya takes a breath and hesitates before leaning forward and giving Zero a hug. "For what it's worth, I'm glad you're still alive." After a minute he pulls away. "...but I'm obviously not the one who can forgive you for what you did. If... if you want to make peace with yourself I think... you should apologize to their families. If you know who they are of course... buy them fruit baskets. Leave flowers on their graves... I don't know... I don't- I'm not sure... how your job... does things..."

Zero doesn't move when Seiya hugs him. Doesn't move when he pulls away either. "I don't think there's forgiveness in my field. That field." he corrects himself "And I guess I'm not looking for your absolution or anything. Just didn't feel right to keep something like that from you."

"...Right, okay." They sit in silence for a bit. "... I... I just don't know how i should respond." ... "...Before I became a ghoul, my parents went out for something so my sister and I were home alone... on that day someone broke into our house to rob us. I don't know why... but my sister... she tried really hard to stop them, she gave me the phone and asked me to call the police. I couldn't say anything. I called them but I couldn't... couldn't speak. I was hiding when I saw... my sister get... killed. My parents blamed me for that. That's how I got disowned. And became a ghoul."

Zero opens his mouth. And then closes it. And then opens it again. "That's horrible. That's.... fuck. You know there is absolutely no part of that that's your fault, right? None whatsoever? Seiya... I..." Zero feels like there's a stone in his gut. He'd always suspected Seiya was the better of the two of them. And now he knew for certain. And Seiya... sweet, kind, caring Seiya... being disowned for something he could genuinely do nothing about? To watch his sister die? "I'm so sorry. No one should ever have to go through something like that." he lifts his hand to hold Seiya's but decides against it and pulls back. "Why are you telling me this now? You didn't have to... I mean fuck. That's not what I mean. I am always here to listen no matter what I just mean like... I hope I didn't make you feel like you had to..." (edited)

"...I dunno, I meant to tell you a while ago. Just didn't know when. Jo already knows. I told her when we were playing 20 questions." Seiya looks down at his hands. "I'm not going to hate you for... doing what you... did. That would be hypocritical knowing that Jo... did- also- um... you know... something similar."

"To be fair, Jo is very good at prying information out of people when she wants to." Not going to hate me. But you probably should. I'd hate me if I was you. Experiencing violence like that and then learning your boyf— "Jo is Jo though. I'm your boyfriend. Supposed to be anyway. I feel like that's worse. Like you said earlier. With the whole charity person analogy." Zero picks at an imaginary loose thread on his trousers. "Anyways. I'm sure you probably want some space." He starts to stand. "Unless you have any more questions?"

"My past is not exactly something I care to hide, I just don't like lingering on it. Since... it's hard to respond to." Seiya watches Zero stand up and also gets up to retrieve something. "I don't have any hibiscus flavored candy, but strawberry is somewhat close to watermelon?" Seiya gives Zero strawberry flavored milk candy before opening the door for him to leave. "But, yeah. Thanks for stopping by. I might text you if I have anything to ask."

"Yeah, I can understand that." Zero takes the candy and puts his hand in his pocket. Normally he'd give Seiya a kiss goodbye but it felt wrong right now. "Yeah, text me anytime. Line's always open for you." With that he left, feeling heavier than he had when he arrived.

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Ken begins snooping around the doors of the Vagastrom dorm hall. A suspicious character indeed.

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Ken is currently on his hands in knees by Leo's door, seemingly searching for something. When he spots Seiya he panicks. SHITSHITSHITSHIT. Ken scrambles for his artifact in his pockets.

"Um?"

Ken manages to pull out the container, but drops it. The tin opens up and his candies spill everywhere.

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"Umm... do you need help with that..?" Seiya crouches by him and picks up some of the candies.

SHIT, it's the gigachad! Isn't this one of Kurosagi's lackeys? Ken starts sweating bullets and doesn't move from his spot.

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Seiya gives him a weird look but continues picking up the candies and returns them to Kentin's tin (heh). "Are you okay..?"

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-# "Y-Yeah... I was just..." Ken gulps and takes the tin back. -# "A-Are you friends w-with um... Kurosagi?"

"No... sorry. Did you need something from him?" Seiya stands up and holds out a hand.

-# "...his death..." Ken whispers it so quietly its incoherent.

"I'm sorry?" He leans in a bit to try to hear him better.

-# "...His hair." ...FUCK! WHY DID HE SAY THAT?!

"What about his hair?"

Think! THINK! What totally normal thing would he need his hair for? A drug test? A crime investigation? Genetic testing...?! -# "Uhm... I'm his fan."

Seiya raises an eyebrow. "A... fan. Are you sure about that?"

Ken nods slowly. "Yes."

Leo opens his door with intention to leave, but stops upon seeing Ken hunched over at his doorway. "..." The vice-captain raises an eyebrow and looks over at Seiya. "Um, what are you idiots doing?"

"This guy claims to be a fan or something. He..." Seiya isn't sure whether or not to mention that this guy was trying to get a piece of Leo's hair. "He dropped something on the way here so I was helping him pick it up."

Ken quickly shoves a candy in his mouth and goes invisible, then runs away.

Leo's eyes follow Ken as he runs away, a bored expression in his face. "It's that loser that's drooling over Tommy. Gross. Fan my ass." Leo saw the comment from Ken on his Instagram post. He wasn't sure it was him at first, but it was so out of pocket that he went out of his way to trace his IP by catphishing him and sending a link that the idiot clicked without hesitation. The vice-captain laughs derisively. "How much you wanna bet he's sneaking in your friends panty drawer. That one that handed out the quizzes..." Leo snaps his fingers, like its helping jog his memory. "Sayuri? Sachi?"

"Saki? She's never mentioned this guy to me."

"Saki." Leo repeats with a nod. "You really haven't seen him around campus?"

"Uhhh.... I think I remember seeing him at the maid cafe..?"

"Yeah. He was there alright." Leo walks out of his room, shutting and locking the door behind him. "Good luck running through your applicants." *The vice-captain jeers. "When are you gonna tell me the juicy details of your break up?"

Seiya rolls his eyes. "Why do you care? I'm not taking any applicants, anyway. Saki was just messing around."

"No? Seems like it'd be fun. A little desperate to follow through with, but fun. A perfect opportunity to mess with that one douche bag intern, too. What a pity." As for whether or not Leo cares... does wanting to know for the sake of knowing count as caring? Kind of. "I'm totally invested in seiji, duh. You saw the shirts."

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Seiya was going to say 'Gross, why are you so obsessed' and walk away when Leo mentioned 'shirts,' plural. "Shirts..? You have more than one?? Why do you need to write 'Seiji' on more than one shirt, how often are you parading that shit around??"

Leo did say plural didn't he? Actually one shirt said seiji and the other one was promoting their breakup for cash. He's not gonna say that though. "Yeah. Was a big fan, you know. I paraded it around all the time, I'm the head of your fan club." Leo leans against his door. "Don't you wanna tell your biggest die hard shipper the nitty gritty?"

'He had a crush on Kamiyama and kissed Jo,' Seiya wanted to say, but he didn't. He was kind of over it. Or just purposefully trying not to think about it. Leo would likely blow the whole thing out of proportion and then something bad would happen. "Are you still mad about the Kamitani thing?" Seiya latched to the first think he could think of to change the subject. Saki had mentioned it in Wickhive that Leo had said his type was Kamitani. People seem to latch onto things for longer than expected. It had literally been over a month since that incident but it seems Leo hasn't forgotten about it.

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Leo puts on a tight-lipped smile. "I wasn't mad." He lies. "I was totally fucking Kami, you caught me. Those freaky ass spider legs really do it for me."

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"Oh, do they now? Is that why you sent in an boyfriend application? Because I'm tall?" Needless to say it was incredibly obvious that Leo was lying. One because he wasn't fucking Kamitani and two because Leo has never apologized for what he did to his room over telling everyone that he did.

"You're no Kami. You need another foot to have that level of sex appeal. Anyway, I answered your question, so why don't you answer mine?" A completely dishonest answer, but an answer all the same.

"Ohh so you like those Tumblr sexymen, right? Pretty sure that's what they're called. Do you have a crush on Slenderman perhaps? I think someone from Frostheim mentioned that they saw a bunch of Slendermen on one of their missions with the inspector. It's too bad you didn't get to see them." Seiya ignores Leo's question entirely. It didn't matter if Leo had answered his question or not if he so decided to lie about it.

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Leo feigns awe. "Wow... I'm gonna have to get right on that after you tell me the sob story behind your breakup."

"Ehh, it's kind of none of your business." Leo could likely try to log into his accounts and read back if he was that desperate. Seiya wasn't sure at the moment if there was anything in particular that he wanted to hide. He could try to satisfy his curiosity now so he wouldn't go snooping but Leo already had access to Zero's text messages, didn't he? "Why don't you go ask Zero?"

Leo rolls his eyes. Of course he weaseled out of it. Figures. He's not that interested to go digging for information either. Texts only give away so much anyway. "Zero is even more annoying than you. I'll pass."

Seiya lowered his voice. "I guess we can agree on that." As much as he wanted to get over the whole situation, it hasn't been long enough for him to just brush it off. And getting upset in front of Leo out of all people would honestly be the worst. "I'm gonna get lunch. Bye."

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Leo looks over him over with an unreadable expression. "..." He shrugs, breaking his gaze away. "Do what you gotta do, himbo."

Seiya walks past him. Probably not actually going to get lunch.

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Leo helps guide the bumbling himbo back to Vagastrom. Currently they stand in the dorm hall, their hands still linked. It had been so long, Leo's palms are started to get sweaty. Gross. "Alright, where's your new room? Guess you finally gotta fess up."

"...nuh uh."

6:03 PM

"..mmnsleepy..."

"...And? What, you wanna take a nap on the commons couch?"

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Leo narrows his eyes at Seiya's pathetic puppy dog face. It honestly looks more passable than his own. "...What?"

"...You're gonna leave me alone?" (edited)

6:22 PM

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Why is he making that stupid face? Is that supposed to sway him? It is pitiful... "Uh, duh. What's the alternative if you don't wanna go back to your room?"

"...yours..." He starts walking over to Leo's room.

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Leo's eyes widen marginally as Seiya suddenly takes the lead. He inadvertently follows him, their hands still linked for the moment. "I must have forgotten the part where I invited you, himbo."

"I never invited you to mine, but you're always there."

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"Not the new one." Leo argues petulantly. When they stop at the door, the vice-captain lets go of his hand and brushes the dampness from it being confined for so long off on his pant leg. He sighs, placing a hand on his hip as he shoots him a pointed look. "Why exactly do you want to come into my room?"

"Why do you always wanna go in mine?"

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"...You know why. Are you planning on stealing my shit and vandalizing it? Cause I won't let you in then." Leo reaches for his wallet in his back pocket and pulls out the keycard to his door anyway. He recently upgraded to this system for more security.

"No... I'm just a sleepy little guy...."

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Leo rolls his eyes. It's not like the himbo could fuck up his room in this state anyway. At least not well. He presses the keycard against the reader and the door clicks open. After turning the knob and pushing it open, he motions forward to let him in. "Go on. Before I change my mind."

Almost died slipping on motor oil. Wished it killed me but this dorm can’t do anything right. Only wrongs.

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He walks through the dorm hallway. Once he was near Alan's room, he could hear someone else inside his room. "Ah?..."

11:49 PM

He chooses to wait, maybe trying to eavesdrop on them. It sounds like Mairo inside... ".........Big sister Mai........."

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"Damn... Harsh..." He eavesdropped from outside of Alan's room.

12:10 AM

"Mairo!"

@Indigo

"Man- angry girls are dangerous, she ignores me-" (edited)

“what….”

"Ah... Sorry about everything, Mairo" He scratched the back of his neck before looking back at Mairo. "You... Wanna grab some food? My treat as an apologise gift?"

she looks Youko up and down and sighs “And pray tell why do you need apologize to me?”

"Cuz I'm causing the trouble in the first place? And triggered literally everything?..."

“so you admit you’re causing issues for them?” she crosses her arms now giving him a unamused look “What are you in love with crow or something?”

12:39 AM

“because I don’t appreciate you dragging my friend around emotionally and hurting his relationship with someone he cares about just because you are jealous.”

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"I'm not in love with Crow??? I'm his big brother, that's all?? ... I'm really sorry if I make Cap and you mad like this, okay?" He looks a bit panicked.

quirks a brow “is that what you tell yourself at night to help you sleep” she wasnt in the mood to continue this as she turns to leave and then stops turning back. “Then go and apologize to them instead of me” she turns back around to leave

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"A-... Okay...?" Girls-, he said in his mind.

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"Freak..."

Leo drags a chair across the hall and going into the commons area near his room. He's setting up cameras to catch whatever the fuck has been waking him up lately.

Now he has to deal with Leo-

Leo's dragging a chair out again. This time, he has a handful of infrared cameras to replace the ones he put up yesterday. The vice-captain is beyond temperamental right now. He slept one hour today, and probably less than five over the last several days collectively. Despite the patches he used on his skin, the dark circles under his eyes haven't budged. And he can't get back to sleep because his ears are still fucking ringing and have been since this morning. As Leo exits his room, he kicks the cookies on the floor to the side and brings the chair to one of the cameras set up in the hallway. He sets the tote of infrareds down on the ground before stepping onto the chair and standing on his tip toes to detach the mounted camera. Why the fuck did these ceilings have to be so high? (edited)

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As Leo's dragging the chair around the commons area, he catches a glimpse of Youko's amp. It's still plugged in. The idiot must have been practicing out here again. The volumes on the lowest setting, but there's a distinct buzzing sound that Leo is picking up and has been for a while. He drops the chair with the tote of cameras and walks over to it. "Ugh, this annoying fucker." Leo shuts off the amp and yanks out the cable. This guy probably has multiple cables, right? So, Leo breaks off the volume knob too and walks over to the nearest cracked window and flings it outside. He carries on with setting up his cameras.

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GET OUT

Hmm... Maybe the vice-captain switched rooms. Alan would just tell him to leave if he saw him here. Jin decides to look around a little longer and ask around.

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12:57 AM

Jin knocks loudly on another students door. He's still on the hunt.

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Milo carries a box of snacks and looks around for Leo's room.

"Oh, hey! New guy! Are you looking for something?"

Milo glances over at Seiya, who appears to be addressing him. He quickly pulls out his phone and opens up his speech to text app-- just in case. He belatedly digests what Seiya said moments before. With a strong accent, he speaks up. "...I'm looking for Leo Kurosagi's room. Do you know where it is?"

"Yeah, he should be down the hall to the left." He points down the hall. " Our names are on the room number plates so you should probably find him pretty easily. Do you wan me to walk you there?"

Milo glances at his phone as Seiya's voice picks up on the translator. His voice is measured, so he understands it before he even registers the text in front of him. It's probably not necessary. Milo nods, shifting his attention back onto Seiya. "Okay. I will follow you."

Seiya matches his pace with Milo's and begins to lead the way to Leo's room. "So, how'd you two meet?"

"...Leo and I follow eachother on social media. We both create content."

"Ah, makes sense. What's your handle?" He takes out his phone.

"My Instagram is prinzdelu. My other social media is in the description."

Seiya nods and types it into his phone. Honestly it kinda sounded like that slang word English speakers have been using a lot. Delulu? Prince Delulu..? Nah, that's probably not what this guy was going for. Who would willingly call themselves delusional? "Ah, so you're a gaming vtuber?" Seiya scrolled through the account for a second before following and putting his phone away.

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Milo nods. "Yes. I prefer to be anonymous. A recent problem made me change my mind."

"Recent problem?"

"Kurosagi."

... "Ah, you hate him too, huh?"

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Milo makes a face and pauses, choosing his words carefully. "... Hate is a harsh word. Do you hate him?"

Well, not really. But, it's not like Seiya would stop others if they wanted to beat Leo's ass. "He has a lot of enemies, for sure. How'd he wrong you?"

Milo's arms shift the position of the box he's holding while he walks. "... I had reasons to believe he was going to dox me. So I did I a face reveal."

"...oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Are you here to incite your revenge then?" Mostly a joke. Seiya looks at Milo's box of snacks, almost wondering if some of them were poisoned.

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"No." He replies firmly. "This is a collaberation. I will get back at him later." Milo's lips curl into a small smile. Based on his expression and tone, you can assume it's probably a joke? "... I hope that no one thinks Leo and I are actually going steady. I did not think he would agree with that when I gave him permission to post."

"Yeah, I don't think you need to worry too much about it. He's like that to almost everyone." He stops in front of Leo's door. "This should be his room. Do you need anything else?"

Milo shakes his head and opens his box in his arms. His violet eyes scan the contents in deliberation before he picks up a bag of 'Hermann the German Black Currant' candies. Milo hands him the bag with a smile. "Thank you. Can I ask for your name?"

Seiya smiles and takes the bag. "Seiya Masamoto! It's nice to meetcha," he holds out his hand for a handshake.

Milo looks at Seiya's hand for a brief moment before returning the handshake. "...Milo Otani."

Leo opens the door. He glances between the pair and smirks. "Already making new friends, buddy?" Leo claps his hand against Milo's shoulder, a little harder than necessary. This earns a frown from the transfer student. The vice-captain narrows his eyes at the bag in Seiya's hand. "Damn. Stealing my shit, huh?"

"Jealous?" he drops his hand and steps away. "Alright, seeya around, Milo. Bye, Leo." He turns to leave.

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Leo rolls his eyes. "Of this loser? Fucking spare me." The vice-captain steps to the side, puts a hand on Milo's back, and gives him a shove into his room. "Let's get this over with Princess Bubblegum." Leo shuts the door behind them.

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Jo emerges from Leo's room, very quietly shutting the door behind her. She's holding her boots and preparing to put them back on when she notices footsteps and glances up. Seiya. Well, shit. Haven't they been here before like this back on the Shinjuku Face mission? Her hair's thoroughly a mess, there's a few hickeys darkening her neck and around her collarbones where the collar of her coat can't quite hide them, and she's very clearly in rumpled evening wear at the crack of dawn leaving Leo Kurosagi's room. "Morning," Jo says awkwardly.

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Seiya's eyebrows raise and his mouth opens a bit. He cringes at little when he sees the hickies on Jo's neck so he looks away. "...Good morning to you too..." Damn. This is awkward. "Bathroom's that way." he points down the hall, not sure why Jo didn't just take care of herself in Leo's bathroom but whatever.

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A bright blush fills Jo's face and she glances away too, self-consciously massaging the back of her neck. Fuck. Of all people, why Seiya? Why was he up so early? "Ah. Yeah. Um, thanks." Jo points down in the same direction as Seiya to confirm she got the directions right before she quickly hurries along. If there were any other early-risers on campus, she could probably neaten up her hair at least and arrange it and her collar to hide the night's evidence from them. Now the secret's between Jo, Leo, and Seiya. What a weird dynamic they keep getting caught in.

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Seiya subconsciously reached toward his own neck as he walked away. Eugh.

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Campus cat is making his rounds, dropping off packages.

"Pssspsspss." Leo squats down by Campus cat and hands him two twenty count Godiva truffle variety boxes, one dark, and one milk. He didn't know which one Jo preferred, so he decides to send her both. She hadn't gotten him anything for Valentine's Day, but she had been getting him gifts. So, this is fine, right? It's not like he would tell her it's from him. Considering all the gross orbiters she's seemed to have accumulated, anyone could send this at her door. -# "Hey, buddy. Take this to Frostheim. It's room number [CENSORED]."

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Campus Cat stares at Leo blankly, before pulling out a gift tag and a pen. He looks the vice-captain up and down and begins writing out Leo's name.

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-# "Dude, no!" Leo yanks the tag from his paw. It's not hard to do considering the lack of opposable thumbs. -# "Just don't add a name! It's fine."

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"... :3c." Campus cat offers out an anti-harrassment pamphlet.

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Leo makes a face. -# "Yeah, like it's harassment. I don't need that, so put it back." Leo forcefully wedges the boxes into Campus Cat's satchel and tapes the House and room number to them. -# "Do NOT add a gift tag. Don't add a note. Just drop it off. You can do that, right kitty?" Leo pats Campus Cat's head. Pat, pat, pat.

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Campus Cat stands there for a moment, eventually nodding. He will comply. "Nyaaah...!"

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11:00 AM

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11:04 AM

Seiya decides he wants to jumpscare Leo, so he stands directly behind him. "Hey there, Buddy. Who're you sending that to?" He can already guess that it's for Jo, which lowkey kinda pisses him off. Usually he wouldn't give a shit but unfortunately the gods + amnesia decided that Seiya's gonna be a jealous POS.

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Despite his hearing being particularly adept, Leo did not hear Seiya come up behind him through his head voice while whispering to the messenger cat. He jumps a little from where he's squatted, but manages to keep his balance. ... Ugh. Himbo. Leo frowns at getting caught, but luckily he's facing away from Seiya for now. After a brief pause, the vice-captain turns around. He pouts out his lips in a mock cutesy face, and places a finger to his cheek. "Ummm, Kamitani~♡."

Looks like he was too late to stop the cat from running off, but early enough to hopefully break down this guy's ego. "Don't you think you've harassed the poor guy enough? I'm pretty sure she hates you, right now." Seiya might not have access to Jo's voice at the moment, but he's pretty sure he has her accent and vocal mannerisms memorized. He should be careful not to say too much. "Guess I thought... maybe he wasn't as bad as you and Zero think he is. I had an anomaly to deal with so I trusted him to watch over you for me. Then he decides pretending you two are dating is the greatest idea ever. I'm sorry, Seiya." .... He thinks for a moment, considering changing her words about Leo not caring about her to "I hate him" or "fuck Leo," but he decides against it. "End quote."

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......... … …….. ………….. Leo stares at Seiya with an unreadable expression for a lengthy period of time. One might think it's because he's trying to gauge the reason behind the unprompted, unfucking asked, dumbass pile of dog shit, he just spit out. It's not. The issue with chronically wedging his emotions away to the most inaccessible parts of his brain without maintenance, is that eventually, shit will spill over. For Leo, that can look something like a toddler with no sense of emotional regulation being told for the first time that they actually need to share their favorite toys. Seiya seems to have a knack for wording things in the most infuriating and obnoxious way possible. Right now, Leo's not considering Seiya's pending relationship, the horny dreams about him, or even his obvious derisive selection of words that were a deliberate attempt to piss him off. All he heard really is that Seiya suddenly believes he knows Jo's feelings well enough that he has the balls to suggest a course of action. Leo stands up straight, sporting a bright smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes. “You were standing there long enough to figure out what I was doing, eavesdrop on where it's going, yet seem to still be under the impression that this is an attempt to reconcile. Either your hearing is selective, or you're even dumber than I thought.” The vice-captain puts a hand on his hip, as he continues his spiel. “That quote seems awfully specific, I don't doubt you got it from the source. Funny that you're now taking the moral high ground over a girl who you claimed to have irredeemably betrayed your trust. Boo fucking hoo.” At this point Leo's face is shifting into a scowl. “Don't you have a sasquatch to sit on? Why the fuck are you suddenly interested in who I talk to?”

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...... Though he was obviously trying to piss him off, Leo actually getting mad about it annoyed Seiya. For one thing, it obviously meant his guess was right and Leo was trying to send chocolates to Jo's for White Day. Another thing being that he misinterpreted Seiya's feelings towards Jo, since when has he ever said that she "irredeemably betrayed his trust"? And Leo was being soooo defensive. He didn't reject Jo because he liked someone else. I guess he's just emotionally constipated like that. Seiya exhaled, trying to calm himself down. He was being completely irrational, why the hell did he care who Leo talked to? Unfortunately, despite the (not really) calming breaths he took, looking at Leo's face made his heart race (in an angry way obviously). He gently squished Leo's cheeks, trying not to the the anger seep into his voice. "Because I'm jealous. Why does Jo get special treatment when I'm constantly being harassed? You just love to break into my room, steal my clothes, pray on the downfall of my relationships, bet fucking money on it failing but advertise it by vandalizing my shirts that you stole, trashing my room over a fucking joke, stepping on the-" Seiya stops himself from mentioning Zenji, instead he grips Leo's face tighter, his voice beginning to shake. "-and then I get amnesia and you think it would be sooo fucking funny if you just lied and broke my heart, right? Did you have a good laugh when I said that I didn't remember you? When I tried to comfort you because I thought that you were that one that was jealous? And you still have the audacity to ask me to constantly do chores for you. 'I can't open it! My arms are tired! Wahh wahh' fucking bullshit, you just like to order people around. Did it give a power trip, huh? When I followed your every whim and barely held you accountable for your actions? I've bent over backwards for you since the start of the year but you treat me like a fucking dog. Why does Jo get kisses and choco

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late when I get insulted and dragged through the dirt? Is it because I can't turn flowers into diamond for you? Is it because I got sick and tired of acting that you could do no wrong while she ignored every fucking warning about you and decided to fuck you? You're fucking hilarious, Kurosagi. She's probably-" ......................................... ........................................................ 'I've said too much.' There's probably imprint of his fingers on Leo's jaw when Seiya lets go. He shoves his shaking hands in his pockets and takes a step back. He looks up at the ceiling to prevent any moisture that can be mistaken for tears from falling. That was fucking pathetic.

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”...” … ……. Jealous? This is a new development. For the moment, he forgets Seiya's chummy behavior with Jo. Leo feels his anger subside the longer Seiya talks. He lists Leo's wrong doings– things he hardly even remembers doing at this point. Clearly his attempts for a quick laugh at Seiya’s expense affected him more than he ever let on. And Leo isn't surprised by this detail inherently. What does surprise him is the blatant admission of insecurity. Seiya must feel pretty backed into a corner right now to be divulging all of this. … Broke his heart when he had amnesia? … Not intended. The chores? He forgot that Seiya used to be so compliant with him. Leo is easily bored, so things come in waves. He holds onto the information he can use, then recycles the things he doesn't need. A brain can only reasonably store so much information at once, after all. As for holding barely holding Leo accountable… he thinks that Seiya interested him more the less obedient he became. That side of him can be so much fun. This new display of vulnerability is also very, very, fun. ’Why does Jo get kisses and chocolate when I get insulted and dragged through the dirt?’ ~~A fleeting intrusive thought surfaces. One that features Seiya wrist bound with dapples of mauve and red decorating his skin.~~ Leo should be feeling sorry for Seiya, right? In a way he does. Leo meant it when he said he went too far. A lot of this confusion Seiya is feeling probably has to do with his prank. So why does it almost sound like he's accusing Leo of dredging up shit that's dead and buried…? Once Seiya cuts himself off, Leo's pretty sure he's about to cry. So, he doesn't attempt to weasel that last thought out of him. “...Wow. That chandelier really did a number on you. All of that over some stupid chocolates?” Leo pauses, carefully choosing his next words. He's easily capable of making this worse. It's not lost on him that there's no direct solution here. “White Day is

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a gift exchange, you know.” Not that he expects Seiya to get him something, but it seems like he finds Leo's behavior unfair. In the vice-captain’s mind, that doesn't make much sense, but when do strong emotional reactions make sense? “I've kissed you before. I'll get you chocolates too. Does that help?”

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Seiya stops looking at the ceiling to glare at Leo. “Do you seriously think that’s what this is about? You’re the one that got so defensive over the idea of Jo being sick of your ass.” Dude. The chandelier ACTUALLY made Seiya stupider, he unironically lost brain cells. He thought he was smarter than this, what the hell was he saying?? …… “Forget I said anything.” He actually has to stop himself before he looks even more like a dumbass. He quickly leaves.

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Leo stands there for a solid minute after Seiya leaves. The last comment didn't perturb him. He knows now that he's just hurt and probably embarrassed. At least they're even in that aspect. It's not like Leo didn't make a jackass out of himself in this exchange too. Whatever is going on with Seiya is probably Leo's fault. For him to be so emotional and irrational over this seemingly out of nowhere, [Author's Note: Hypocrite] this is probably just him recovering from a severe concussion. ...Oh, well. Seiya better actually like chocolate.

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