AFTER-ICE-CREAM-PARTY

[pecker]

[Boy everyone is so bloodthirsty tonight. And now a kid is dead and another is gonna execute. Do y'all need some baskin robbins, because it seems like you do!!! So before everyone can leave, Niwatori raises her voice louder than it's gone before now to draw a little attention, and then deflates immediately when she actually gets it.]

Excuse me, please! U-um... this case was really hard, and I think we could all use some time to cool our heads before we finally go back. So... ice cream? Who's with me?

[she'll lead the pack there and anyone else can go home or to visit Clarisse on the set of Orange is the new Black.

Niwa's not that good of a host though, she just gets her own ice cream and lets everyone serve themselves. Who is she to limit your freedom. (Someone who doesn't want to be partly responsible for a Millium Monstrosity, that's who.)]

Comments

[relieable]

[hey, parfaits are great! they make Osomatsu think of home...]

You said it. [a sigh, stabbing at his treat] I dunno how much more of this I can take.

[streetwolf]

[Wayne's just poking at the food. He's not quite sure to go about it? He'll just stab some of the fruit on top.]

I'm more worried about how much the locals can take. This keeps up and there'll be riots in a week.

[relieable]

That too! They seem to get more and more angry at us every week. I’m surprised they haven’t tried to take some of us out.

[streetwolf]

Yeah... I'm not so bothered by it, cause I've dealt with that shit before. But I'm worried about Sakura and Millium. Mostly Sakura. I told her to tell them I made her do it and start crying if they give her any problems but I don't think she can do that.

[relieable]

[so many people are looking out for Sakura, himself included]

Yeah, she’s not gonna lie to help herself. She’s just that kind of person.

[streetwolf]

I know. And I wouldn't change that... It's just that people like that get hurt for other people who don't deserve it.

[relieable]

[he completely agrees. Osomatsu looks down at his sherbert]

Yeah... I’m not saying any of us really deserve this. But... Sakura-chan, most of all, does not.

[streetwolf]

[He nods.]

...Seems like no matter where you go. The one's who deserve bad the shit the least get the most of it.

[relieable]

[hm]

You come from a bad place, don’t you?

The bad*

[streetwolf]

I guess? It seems that way... I mean it's shit. But it's always been that way so I didn't think about it. But this place is--I take it you're from somewhere similar to here?

[Can't really complain when it's all he's ever known. Well he can and will... ] </small

[relieable]

Not at all. I live in a big city, in Japan. You got crime, and perversions, but... I dunno, it doesn’t usually affect me.

[streetwolf]

Man, you're Japanese too? I mean, you got a Japanese name but it's like you ain't changed it... [Wayne's not exactly a Japaneses name.]

I'm from city 23, used to be Edogawa?

[relieable]

[why would he... change it?]

I know Edogawa... though, I’ve never heard it called city 23 before.

[streetwolf]

It's been called that since the end of the war. Easier to sort on the paper work I guess. Probably had to write it a lot, can't think of anything that didn't have to be replaced.

[relieable]

[????]

Yeah, about that... what’s this war you keep talkin’ about?

[streetwolf]

Uh... The second one. Come on, it was only four years ago.

[relieable]

[four years ago...]

Where I’m from, there haven’t been any wars in Japan for a while...

[streetwolf]

What, no. It was four years ago, ended April 1st 1944 after the disaster.

[Don't ask what disaster cause it's not got a name.]

[relieable]

... [ah. that sounds like... Osomatsu decides to not ask about that, rubbing the back of his head]

I, uh. I’m from a little bit further in the future than you are, man. The year where I’m from is 2017.

[streetwolf]

[Just give him a moment. To groan into his hands.]

This is bullshit... [And there's another groan. And a few more seconds before he snickers.]

Guess this proves those old army nuts wrong though. They think everyone will be dead way before then.

[relieable]

[sorry for coming from the future]

Oh, yeah. I think Cian comes from some time that’s even further. I dunno much about it, though, just that things seem... more sterile. Either way, humans are still surviving.

[streetwolf]

Guess that's one good thing about all this. Miss Rose'll be glad about that. Means all her work meant something in the end.

[relieable]

[Osomatsu has so many questions for this guy, about the war, or why Wayne changed his name. but he feels like he probably shouldn’t ask about things like that. at least, not right now. so he eats another spoonful of sherbert, thinking about what he wants to say next]

All the people who were brought here... it seems like we’re all from different places and times. It’s weird, but also cool.

[streetwolf]

You're right about the weird... Not so sure about the other part. Every time I think I know something, it changes and what I know is wrong.

Guess it's a good way to make you cautious.

[relieable]

You don’t think it’s interesting that people are from different times and places than yours?