week two | dates

[showhost]

You worked up your courage and asked someone out on a date! Good job!





Now you have to hope the producers are kind re: where they send you.

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[aspirings]

[Hm...?]

Isn't that all anyone can do?

If you gave it your best, then I don't think anyone could ask for more.

[singurarity]

[ Oh, they can-- ]

Either way, I'm just really glad to get a breather. Kind of. Sort of.

[ She's still trying her best-- ]

[aspirings]

[He turns to face her properly at that, reaching out to place his hands on her shoulders.]

Ritsuka! If there's ever anything I can do to make this situation more relaxing for you, just say the word!

I'll do everything I can!

[singurarity]

[ Oh. Well.

She blinks at him. ]

Thanks, but you kind of have a lot on your plate as is--

[aspirings]

[He just blinks at her blankly at that. wdym.

anyway then he's back to himself]

Hardly! All of this is just to be expected of a host, and I plan on going above and beyond the average host at that!

So please, don't hold back!

[singurarity]

Okay, then. You and me, poolside at some point, drinks with little umbrellas in them.

[ Good enough. ]

[aspirings]

[oh my god.

He's not expecting it, and it startles a laugh out of him, but--you know, it does sound fun.]

Ha ha ha! Fine then, we'll make it happen. It sounds like a lot of fun!

[singurarity]

It will be! It's the quintessential relaxation thing to do!

[ Or so she assumes. ]

[aspirings]

[IT IS IN STORIES AND ANIME AND THEY WOULD NEVER LIE IN STORIES AND ANIME]

Indeed! And it'll be much warmer than up here, even if the view is incredible!

[They are going to freeze their fingers off unless they head down soon.]

[singurarity]

... Yeah, I think my fingers are getting numb, now that you mention it...

[ Oops? ]

[aspirings]

[oops]

... How do we signal that we'd like to come down, exactly?

[singurarity]

Flare gun?

[ That'd be fun! ]

[aspirings]

[he does not even bat an eye at this honestly]

Do we have one?

[singurarity]

Only one way to find out.

[ Time to dig in the supply bag in the basket!! ]

[aspirings]

[and lo and behold



there is one

Tsukasa is just squinting at it. did. did rui pack this basket]

That... seems really unlikely.

[singurarity]

And yet, here we are!

[ Brandishing it!! ]

[aspirings]

[...]

Do... you know how to use that?

[singurarity]

Fortune favors the bold, Tsukasa!!

[ FIRING IT.

Thankfully not into the balloon, she has the presence of mind to lean over the edge first. ]

[aspirings]

Ritsuka--!

[oh my GOD of all the people he thought he'd be playing the straight man to, it was not Ritsuka.

Regardless, she fires it off, thankfully into the distance... and off it goes.

... .... ...


Eventually, they are rescued, and brought back to ground level, and Tsukasa is just... shaking his head a little to himself.]

I see... I get it now. There's that side of you too...

[singurarity]

Hm? What side?

[ Innocently. ]

[aspirings]

[a very, very emu or rui side......... fortune favors the bold indeed.]

... You're just bolder than I was expecting, that's all.

[singurarity]

Sometimes it's nice to be impulsive.