Tanabata + other prompts

[silentscout]

Who ⬤ Lalli and anyone!
What ⬤ some prompts about Tanabata, possibly more throughout the month
When ⬤ on Tanabata + some other times
Where ⬤ around Jigoku-cho
Content Warnings ⬤ none
See comments below for prompts!

Comments

[silentscout]

The higher ups.

[Oh, wait.]

I'm in Enma. I think my faction is supposed to be watching out for this stuff. Maybe Shuten too.

[perfectdistance]

Oh.

[ There's a slight exhale as he realizes that wasn't part of his duties for the night. Cool, he wasn't neglectful. ]

I'm in Tamamo, we didn't hear about having to be muscle.

[silentscout]

[He squints when he hears that Nero is from Tamamo.]

But you don't look beautiful.

[What he means is that when he sees people from Tamamo they're usually dressed to the 9s and look amazing. Like their leader, they're always looking their best in public. And Nero is just a normal guy.

Is he explaining all of that though? Hell no.]

[perfectdistance]

[You know when you get insulted but you're just not prepared to be insulted that there's just a weird awkward pause. What is he supposed to do with that? He has no idea.]

Thanks.

[That's... a response. Sure.]

You know somebody has to cook all the pretty food they're serving.

[silentscout]

Oh.

[Okay, yeah, that's a valid point. And at this point he knows Nero can cook well, so.]

Okay. So you're the cook.

...that's a lot of people to cook for.

[perfectdistance]

[Does Lalli think it's just him in the kitchen? No.]

I'm one of them. There's a whole bunch of people who work back there. Tryin' to cook for this many people with just one guy would be impossible.

[Even if he was using magic, which he isn't.]

[silentscout]

[I, for one, hope Nero gets his magic back and cooks ALL the food with it.]

With one or with many, it's still a lot of cooking. It took a team of ten to keep the base fed, and they worked countless hours.

[Half of a story probably doesn't help explain things, but he seems to respect Nero for being so hard-working?]

[perfectdistance]

[He cooks with no magic because it's more fun that way. He's so funny, he could be doing so much cooking with magic, but no. For some reason he's a purist.]

The kitchen's got more than ten people in it, but it's an all hands on deck kinda day. [Though considering this kidnapping and stuff... maybe some of those hand should've been on the lookout.]

How big's the base?

[silentscout]

About 900 people. But not everybody eats from the cooks, some cook for themselves.

[It's a big number to Lalli, but it probably isn't that much here in Jigoku-cho. The individual factions probably have more members than that.]

[perfectdistance]

Pretty big group. Ten is a small team for something like that, even if they didn't feed every single mouth there.

[ 900 is still way less than the number of Lost Souls down here. ]

[silentscout]

Ten is what we can spare. Everyone has a job to do on the base.

[perfectdistance]

Hard workin' crew.

[silentscout]

We have to be.

[Something something zombie apocalypse.]

People in the factions here slack off too much.

[perfectdistance]

There's more than just the lost souls in the factions. Might be part of it. More people to rely on.

[ Nero wants his contract payment very badly. ]

[silentscout]

[It makes sense. If someone is living in this city permanently and just wants a job, then slacking off is natural. If you don't have something to keep you driven, then you'll be driven to not do anything eventually.

Lalli's contract payment is important to him too, though the longer he goes without reaching it the more he wonders if he'll be too late by the time he actually gets it.]

Lost souls or not, they need to do their job properly.

[Says a known slacker who takes naps on his shift.]

[perfectdistance]

[ Nero side eyes him for a moment. He's part of enma, right? And he didn't go up there and prevent whatever this was from taking place? Is he really the right person to be lecturing about it?

Instead, Nero gives a slight shrug of his shoulders. ]

Yeah, probably.

[silentscout]

[Lalli is one big hypocrite and it's okay to call him out on that.

But he's taking that shrug to mean that Nero agrees, so Lalli will nod approvingly as he sits back and lets everyone else do the work for now.]

[perfectdistance]

[Nero's not that specific sort of confrontational.]

You're not questioning me or anything?

[Not that Nero knows any information related to whatever that kidnapping was.]

[silentscout]

You don't look like a criminal mastermind.

[Just. Putting that out there.]

[perfectdistance]

[Oh that's a weird feeling of simultaneous relief and also some part of him that feels just that tiny bit insulted. He's a perfectly good thief, thank you.

Not the kidnapping sort, but still.]

There's that.