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[arf]

Hi everyone! It's your favorite Taichi Nanao here! I have a question!

What are your favorite junk food combos?

Not like pizza and cola, but like combination foods like mac and cheese pizza or donut burgers?

Here's a new one I discovered for inspiration:

Chili cheese flaming hot Cheetos pie! 🤤

Comments

[schmisse]

I'll try it so long as it's your money being spent.

[ Shameless... ]

[arf]

As the owner of the brand new Kaika Theater, I will be happy to treat you to lunch! 😁😁😁😁😁

[schmisse]

If you cry at any point during this lunch meeting, you'll also be treating me to dessert.

[arf]

The burger is also dessert though. You're kind of intimidating to be able to eat sweets after that... 🤩😧

Here's the address! When do you want to come??

[schmisse]

It has meat. It's not a dessert.

I should be free tomorrow or the day after.

[arf]

Tomorrow works! Come hungry!

[schmisse]

[ And so, Weiss meets him the following day. She comes on time— rather, before the appointed time. She does not, however, come hungry, despite what Taichi told her.

Hopefully she's not going to have to use her hands to eat this. ]

I'm outside.

[arf]

Come inside! To my office!

[ Despite that he's already running down the hall to head to the front door. ]

Weiss-chan!

[schmisse]

[ Yeah, she just read that and then she heard his voice??? Hello, Taichi. She's judging you right off the bat. ]

I thought I was supposed to come inside?

[arf]

You are! But then I realized you don't know where my office is!

[ She would judge him a lot more if he let her wander around the theater for 20 minutes...]

[schmisse]

I know how to ask directions!

[ Still, it does help a lot that Taichi went out on his own. It saved time! ]

Well, whatever. I'm hungry, so I'm in a bad mood.

[ Worse mood? ]

[arf]

Yeah but isn't it kind of rude to make you wander around to find it?

[ He's being a gentleman!! He grins and holds his hand out to her, happy to lead her to his office despite her attitude!! ]

Welcome to Kaika Theater!

[schmisse]

How exactly did you get this place?

[ And no, sorry. This isn't Prismatica that she'd willingly hold hands with just about anyone, including her friends. Sorry, Taichi. In fact, she's... staring at his extended hand, then back at him. ]

I'm fine, thank you.

[arf]

The Elphame Traders! You pay them and then they set everything you need up for you, then you're on your own after that. I wanted a theater more than anything, you know?

[ Taichi doesn't seem bothered by it. He's just a friendly sort. It's kind of like when a dog puts his paw on your knee and you don't pet him. He'll survive. ]

Right this way, Madam Wazzle. [ Mademoiselle. ]

[schmisse]

How long did it take you to get this? [ Compared to Prismatica, making money here is more difficult, after all! "Difficult", but... really, it's the normal way of making money. ] I can't imagine it was cheap. Or easy.

[ ... stopping in her tracks, she gives him a puzzled look. With a brow arched, she just. . . ]

What did you just call me?

[ No, seriously. What? She... doesn't know what that means. ]

[arf]

Well, I was working multiple part-time jobs and saving money, and doing street acts to raise tips, and really only spending money on Hikaru and cup noodles, and rent got split between me and Juza-san- I'm lucky he'll pay half so I don't have to pay 2/3 for Hikaru and myself. Then I have the Brownies so they save on cleaning and chores so we don't have to hire a janitorial staff here except during show time for emergencies and the extra time not doing chores meant more time to do a job. Eventually it started adding up! But probably since around the time I got here...?

[ He was even putting a little away when he could barely afford rent and had to GoFundMe a bed. ]

Madam Wazzle? It's French.

[ No, no it's not, Taichi. ]

[schmisse]

How long did you only eat cup noodles for?

[ And okay— now she gets it. (If only because her player forgot she learned French in Prismatica.) ]

You mean Mademoiselle. You have to make the syllables connect with one another.

[arf]

Way too long!

[ Even Taichi knows this isn't a good eating habit. It's not like he likes it much, but he likes spoiling HIkaru.. more... ]

That's what I said!

[schmisse]

What you said and what I said are two completely different things...

[ But she won't argue with him anymore about that. He's gonna treat her to food, after all! ]