Audience: Mineo Enomoto

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week 2, tuesday

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[instead of hovering stupidly over the flowers in the middle platform this time, sloth is sitting(?) on one of the benches. well, they're floating in a sitting position. this counts.]

Mineo! Come right on in!

[this isn't even their place to be welcoming people in.]

You're getting... "weird memory flashes"?

[sengokus]

Thaaaaanks, Sloth-san - and yeah!! People are like.... seeing stuff that I experienced before.

[and he

looks pretty Unsure(tm) about it]

The Avatars aren't experiencing it?

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I think a few of them have said something about it. Wow! Really strange, all of us sharing illegal, scandalous memories about ourselves.

Everyone should probably just avoid each other until it goes away!

[no shit]

Aren't you worried about me seeing one?

[sengokus]

Yeah.... kinda why I just wanted to come see you but -

[ . . . . well. he shrugs a little.]

Don't you already know about me? I don't know if there's much left to hide....

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We could get a good bit about you if we wanted, but... I don't know! I only got the preliminaries! I'm so use to people saying their piece, so I'd rather everyone tell me on their own!

[they motion to the bench beside them. are you gonna sit, nerd?]

Maybe you'll get one of mine! Wow! I guess the only thing you'd see is the House.

[sengokus]

[oh - yeah he'll go to sit]

Hmm.... I kinda wanna ask you more questions about that but - before I do, can I ask you to explain something?

[he pulls out a book from his back pocket - it's the one he got as the reward. the embarrassing one. i'm not getting the image again]

This is my book from back home, right? Why's it here? A reward or something?

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You bet.

[the hood lowers when they glance at the book. mineo...? hm. why are you a nerd loser. it's fine. unfortunately,

they are also a nerd loser which is really funny.]

If you recognize it, yeah! Must be yours! If you do good work, you'll probably get rewards! That's the whole point, right? To do as much as you can to get what you came here for.

[sengokus]

Huh..... I guess so. I just don't know how my book can really help me... get back to life again.

[a beat]

Actually - can I ask you something else? White-kun said that he was able to get a power from Wrath. Could I get one...? Is that based on how much I indulge too, or can you hand them out to whoever asks?

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Well... Since you asked so nicely! Wow... I haven't had anyone ask for one yet!

[they roll off the bench into the air, and turn to face mineo in a float. they extend a white hand to him.]

Ready!

[sengokus]

[ . . . . he looks kinda nervous]

I just take your hand...? Do you guys get to pick what we get?

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Yeah!

[yeah for which one?

yeah!]

[sengokus]

[well.

well!!]

.... okay!

[TAKES SLOTH'S HAND BECAUSE AT THIS POINT HE'S TOO CURIOUS TO ASK MORE QUESTIONS]

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That's the spirit!

[sloth takes mineo's hand! it's supposed to be super cool, and mineo is supposed to get something, but...!

there's a flash behind mineo's eyes. suddenly, he's in the marble and stone hallway of an elaborate building. it's incredibly busy, but not with people: with shades. spirits. they are gathered around in groups here and there, but also lined up coming in from a pool of red liquid far to the right.

two people are standing with him by the orange chaise he's sitting on: a handsome young man with black hair and flaming feet, and a grey-skinned woman with a high ponytail and one wing--and a whip!

they have a conversation (until 16:14). and then the woman leaves, and the young man speeds off toward the desk on the left. goodbye!

the sharing bounces sloth back a few inches in surprise, and they let go of mineo's hand.]

Wow! You really do share memories with other people! Weird!

[sengokus]

[g

goodbye?!

mineo blinks in surprise at that and tilts his head in confusion - ]

Was that... yours, Sloth-san? Those are the people you greet in the - uh, House?

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Haha. Yeah!

[PLEASE SOUND MORE CONCERNED ABOUT EITHER OF THESE THINGS. (no)]

Yep! House of Hades, come right on in! [that's his customer service voice.] I check off every Shade my brother brings down to my other brother who ferries them across the Styx!

[sengokus]

O-Oh....

[ . . . ]

So - wait, Hades? Do you know Megara-san then? The one here? Or is this some weird... alternate world thing? That's possible, right?

[glances at his current relationship with takeru]

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I don't know! I thought it was Megaera, but they don't look anything alike, right? I guess it's a different one.

Wow. Two whole Megaeras...

[mineo your different timeline kiss]

[sengokus]

[he'd rather not talk about it. i will say that he buttoned his shirt up all the way today. also not talking about that.]

Were you dating? The one in your memory....

[he just zeroed in on the word 'break up']

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[mineo your hickeys?]

I... Well, um, maybe! Not exactly? We were close! [no, they weren't. meg is just tsundere and humoring him being silly and stupid.] It just wasn't going to work out between us.

Two people, different worlds... She's a Fury, after all!

[sengokus]

[it's singular hickey excuse you]

Oh.... Yeah, I get that. I feel the same way about Endorsi.

[why is he just telling sloth this]

But you can't tell anybody! That's our secret between you and me.

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[OHHHHHHHHHHHH GOSSIPPPPP no one ever talks to him too much, please. his gossip!!!

he bobs down at mineo.]

You like Endorsi?!

[shoot your shot, my guy. hypnos did, and meg made fun of him, so he backtracked immediately.]

[sengokus]

[there's just a little laugh at that - though it's not without a slight heartbroken quality]

Erm.... I'm getting over it. It's hard, but at least I'm used to it! [MINEO'S LONG LIST OF REJECTIONS IS SO FUNNY AND SAD]

I just don't think it's fair or smart to look for something like that here. So.... yeah. I gotta be good! Even Takeru warned me, after all...

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[oh no my html]

Wow! Rejecting the women we are super into... We have something in common!

[begging you to please be less tone-deaf.]

Sometimes it just won't work out! But that's okay. You have your job, they have their job. It happens!

[sengokus]

[stupidly enough

he just nods! yeah, that's more or less what he was getting at?! so he will just let sloth go]

Yeah.... This doesn't really seem like the place to look for love or anything anyway. I'd rather just keep napping all the time for my indulgences.

[i really think mineo is going to manage to still exit this game a virgin]

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Maybe you can just sleep through the entire thing! Haha!

[like they do. all the time.

they extend their hand out again, but this time they lift it to poke a chilly finger against mineo's forehead.]