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Please note the date and time of day for me!

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[Voice]

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...Your cousin.

[The last syllable ends halfway between his normal tone and a rising, questioning intonation.]

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

Mm. Kazuya Minageshi. He... well, he seems to like pretty much everyone.

[Despite his efforts. Despite explaining why he should hate him, screaming that he should hate him... he didn't.]

['I don't hate you.' 'I won't... I will not acknowledge this, Abel! You are my younger brother!
Now... Hate me! I won't allow you to go back to God!']

[He didn't. He couldn't. Even with everything... was it Abel or Kazuya? Which was the one who cared? Or was it both?]

[Voice]

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[Dave feels that there's a lot not getting said, here. That there's a lot packed into the silences around the words. But maybe he's just projecting.

He's been thinking a lot about family, lately.]

Sounds like a good guy. John's like that, too, mostly. When he's not frothing about books, apparently.

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

Mm. Everyone has their obsessions, hm?

[He's not blind to his own, at least.]

[Voice]

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[...He can't help but think of Bro.]

Mm-hm. Seems like it.

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

... Are you going to see him soon?

[Voice]

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[For a crazy second, he thinks Bro?? But then logic sets in.]

John? Yeah, that's the idea. We've spent way too long trying to get reunited and shit.

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

Good. At least you'll be able to catch up soon.

[Voice]

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Yeah. It'll be sweet. ...I'm gonna shove his face in a pie.

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

As long as it's not a berry pie.

[Voice]

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I've heard whipped cream pies are traditional for that shit.

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

If you can't get some from work you can always stop by here.

We'll call it a 'business expense'.

[charcoalfeather]

What?
Oh! No, of course we do!
I just don't hear it everywhere I go
I mean
really everywhere

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oh thats right the bgm
i forgot about that shit
you kind of get used to it after a while
and you can use the radio to get other stations at least

[Voice]

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You are a gentleman and a scholar.

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

I'd like to think so. And it's not like we don't have tons here anyway.

[Voice]

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In that case, I should obviously come visit more often.

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

Well, that goes without saying. April first is coming up...

[charcoalfeather]

you mean there's music playing here all the time?
I guess I'll have to get used to it then.
oh yeah, this thing does have a radio, right?
I feel like I still haven't learned everything about it.

[Text]

[soundmind]

Yeah, he is. A lady from his world suggested going on the trip and they invited me along.

So sorry I'm stealing your senior for a little bit, but hey he was my friend first.

[Text]

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i guess ill allow it
also maybe theyll finally start letting me take on more hours
maybe i shouldve lied about my age during the interview process im feeling discriminated against

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well i use it a lot
i can help you figure stuff out if you want

[Voice]

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Oh god, don't remind me. I'm gonna have to endure April Fool's with the champion prankster chumpass himself, now. And then his birthday's two weeks later, shit.

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

If he gets you too badly, let me know. I'm sure I can come up with something to get him back.

[And attempt to remind himself that he's looking for nonfatal pranks here.]

[Text]

[soundmind]

I don't know, Ken's 19 and even he gets limited on how many hours he takes on. It's not a problem for the household or anything, since I work too, but I have to work like, two jobs.

[Maka that's because you're weird and don't feel satisfied unless you've been working non-stop.]

I don't know what people have against giving us full-time jobs around here, it's always been that way.