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Who: Haruka+Mirai
Where: Chagall Cafe
When: Wed 26, evening
What: Coffee meet up

It wasn't a manga cafe but at least the chairs were comfy enough.

Haruka was there a bit before six and settled into her usual seat. It was nearby the door and she could catch snatches of who was coming in and out. Someone watching her long enough would have noticed she sat with a sort of attentiveness that resembled a dog. She occasionally heard something that made her grin or tilt her head in that direction with a bit curiosity before she settled back into place.

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Haruka didn't reply for a moment. Her head held in place for a moment, like a dog listening to something far away or just somewhere deep in thought. Finally, she said,

"Interesting." And let the word linger, before lightly pushing the tray with the cream and sugar over to his side of the table. She took another sip. "Interesting is good."

They were so absorbed in the moment with their drinks that the world away from Chitoku was almost out of Mirai's thoughts. And when he spared a moment to reminisce about the people left behind, he found he could not worry about them too much. Then he recalled they would be together in a few days - he held his cup a little tighter.

"It is, right?"

"Yep." She doodled with some of the precipitation on the glass, tracing the kanji for 'normal' before wiping it off.

"Long as it's interesting, that's something."

"... Yep."

Mirai poured the cream into his coffee slowly, with dizzy outlines of people passing by him against a damp window. Everything had happened so suddenly with their shinmen that, at the start, all he could think of was his own position - and the resentment he felt at being put there.

"Are you game for keeping things interesting?"

"I guess?"

She tilted her head, looking genuinely curious.

"What way?"

"Oh, nothing much," Mirai said. "I just think a little trouble will do us all good. It stops the grass growing too tall, right?"

He wore a nice smile on his face, but still his eyes glowed with a kind of malevolence.

"Huh. Interesting way of putting it." Haruka turned her head skywards slightly. Unlike Mirai, she looked completely chill for their change in topic.

"Like?"

"I don't know what. I haven't thought that far," Mirai said to her. She listened. He smiled. Several quiet seconds went by which let them hear the sounds of coffee and cake being sold and whispering.

"As you may have guessed, things fall in my lap. I'm happy to wait," he added, lying. "I am quite sure something will happen."

"Maybe? Lots of things seem to," Haruka replied with a straight face. She tipped up her glass until a shard of ice fell in her mouth. She sucked on it thoughtfully before she continued,

"I used to date a wannabe super villain. He was usually pretty good with coming up with interesting stuff on the fly."

"Then maybe that's rubbed off on you," Mirai said, adding more sugar to his coffee and stirring. There was nobody here to tell him that he shouldn't.

"Maybe? Or maybe it rubbed off on him." Haruka smirked a little. Satoshi and her were apparently bad at enabling each other.

She chewed another piece of ice, savoring the taste of coffee. "Guess if I were truly diabolical I could arrange shady trips back to the falls and trick people until it. Mwahahahahahaha."

"I see."

For a while Mirai stopped and waited for Haruka to say something more. He found himself enduring through silence and decided it was better to say something as her friend than let them both grow bored. He stirred as he spoke, "Then you won't mind a few easy marks?"

She tilted her head.

"Like who? Looking to pay someone back or teach a lesson to?"

Mirai had no trouble correcting Haruka's assumptions about what he was after.

"No?" he questioned disbelievingly. "I was just thinking some of our group can do with a little push to enjoy life more. You can admit that, right?"

"Oh. Yep, most of us could." She turned her head upwards. "So you want to make things 'interesting' for the easier ones?"

"Indeed. Or maybe I want to make things interesting in general," he said. "For my friends as much as myself."

"Huh."

The last of the ice clinked against her glass. It didn't have much coffee in the piece anyway.

"More interesting than if it's just for yourself, right? Tis a boring road otherwise, as someone put it." Like Imaizumi himself.

"You remembered what I said," Mirai said, smiling. "I feel flattered."

He necked back the rest of his coffee, which he had sensed was going cold when drinking earlier. His right hand was playing with the sugar decanter and cream on the table, and he kept imagining they were people he could fool once or twice.

"Well then, are you finished?"

"It stuck out?" Haruka replied, with a shrug. "And a sudden deluge followed right after."

She nodded at the question, pushing her glass off to the side. "You?"

Mirai followed her glass with his eyes. Instead of nodding, he tipped his head. He wanted some time alone to think about things. He gestured subtly by bringing out his arm and raising his palm.

"... Yeah. Thanks for the company."

Haruka smiled and replied,

"Yeah. Same to you."

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