[Guess which raging hypocrite probably used love hotel rooms during the slut phase Altered Origin heavily implied he had.
But he is not in his slut phase now. So!!!]
It's this watch! It keeps malfunctioning! It happened while I was talking to another, non-ES idol too. Though he wasn't nearly as sexy as you are 😏
[!!!!!!!]
Ugh, see? This is awful! I'm starting to find myself saying things I didn't mean to say when I open my mouth, too! It's like a witch put a curse on me. But I can't figure out why anyone would ~ever~ want to do that
[ It's fine Leo likes hypocrites? And is one himself sometimes. It's fine! ]
wahahaha, you say that but i bet you gave someone and earful recently? did you talk to the staff~? stuff like that happens sometimes. i was serenading people a while back!
i know that sounds normal for me but i didn't intend to at the time.
anyway, thanks! you're pretty, so you can compliment me all you want. ♪
[ Midnight's gone ahead and rented the guitar he'd like to use for the occasion; it's slung over its back, the cords for a small handheld amp looped around his wrist, the amp itself dangling from his fingers. He's in his normal attire, the usual black leather and pink satin, but opted for fewer chains and rings on his hands and legs. They tend to get a bit percussive during practice, and he'd like to be properly ready for whatever he's getting into today.
He texts discomposer with a quick I'm here ⭐️, sends it, then realizes that in all of this excitement, he never asked for a name. His manners really are getting away from him... ]
You're sure you didn't mean to? That does sound bothersome, but I still would've rather had your curse. At least then people would be able to hear my lovely voice singing sweet words to them, instead of having to read these cheap pick-up lines over text!
And not really! There is this one girl who keeps trying to get a rise out of me, and she seems awfully immature, so I suppose she might do something like this if she could. But she doesn't seem to have any magic powers, so I don't think she's capable of cursing anyone.
[Monika. He means Monika.]
As for the staff, I gave up on talking to them a while ago. They all suffered the same brainwashing procedure, so not one of them has anything useful to say. I had a meeting with that J fellow, too, but he was even more useless.
[ Leo is out here getting along with Monika, what are Rinne and Hiyori doing - ]
so you mouthed off to the obviously powerful guy with fingers in the pie? if i wanted to be a gambler that'd have my money. i think so far everything like that i've heard of has a time limit at least, but i'm not sure what it is!
anyway, are you sure someone is trying to get a rise out of you? i mean, is this like how tenshi is, or what?
I didn't mouth off. I just asked questions, that's all. And that was almost a month ago, so I'm not sure why any such curse would be taking effect *now.*
[Backtagging, that's why.]
Yep! Her motive is utterly transparent. It's sort of funny, really. But I wouldn't compare her to Eichi-kun. I hate Eichi-kun more than I hate caterpillars, but she's more like a housefly. Buzzy and annoying, but easy to ignore!
[ Leo approves this Eichi slander. Though it's...not really slander. He really do be out there causing problems on purpose. Even if Leo's back to using the nickname and such he still gets kind of ticked off thinking about the war so... ]
a lot of people consider asking questions to be mouthing off, especially if you ask a lot of them. it's annoying! hey, do you actually have better lines than that if you're trying?
seems like you're making friends. ♪ did you guys get off on the wrong foot or something? i've argued with a few people but they all gave up pretty quick.
Too bad. If he didn't want to be asked questions, he shouldn't have sent those messages saying "I'm one of the bigwigs around here, and you can find me at my office! Here's the exact location!" Or, better yet, he shouldn't have stuck his fingers in this so-called pie to begin with!
[And that's the tea on that.]
You want to hear them that badly, huh? 😘 I don't think you need to copy my lines. We're both idols, so I'm sure we're both good at telling fans what they want to hear. But none of mine involve doing anything until brains fall out, I can tell you that much.
And pretty much. She's probably just mad I tricked her. But the only reason I did *that* was because she snatched something of mine and refused to give it back. Anyway, she's the type to make up stories and exaggerate wildly just to get a rise out of people. I do feel a bit sorry for her though, since she's obsessed with finding true love, and that's not likely to happen in this place.
[He didn't show up naked! ... He showed up in what was (basically) the ex-fine outfit, which might be worse.
Funny that Leo's mind leapt straight to Jun, though. That's absolutely the main issue here, though it's not literally true in this case.]
I meant a book we were looking at! It had a person on the cover who looked a lot like me, but when I politely asked her to move so I could see what it was, she grabbed it and refused to let go.
Wahaha, you haven't heard~? Sena and Suou have both been bad guys who have turned to kidnapping, you know. [ Leo doesn't sound like he's condemning this. He isn't. He thinks it's funny.
It all worked out in the end anyway...he's watching Jun cook with the rapt attention of someone who really wants to eat food. A cat, even. At least he's not meowing. ]
Anyway, Sena thinks that way. ♪ He's the one who told me to quit running around and stay by his side. If he didn't want it he's had plenty of chances to say so and stop grabbing my hand already.
Well, it'd be different if she was a fan, but I know she only snatched it because I asked for it. So then I pulled one of those "Quick, look over there!" tricks to distract her so I could see it. Which seems a silly thing to a hold a grudge over, but some people are like that, I guess. A shame, since holding grudges is bad for one's health, but oh well!
And I don't want to picture that. A, he'd bring down the mood, B, I don't want to talk to him, and C, this isn't the place for him! I know we're on bad terms and all, but when it comes to defeating Eichi-kun, I'd rather go up against him on stage and prove my worth that way. I don't want to tank his career with a sex scandal. That'd be a disappointing end to things. I'm sure he's got a lot else he wants to accomplish before he croaks. It'd be best if he could fulfill at least some of those dreams.
wait, are you not holding a grudge too? because you just said it's bad for your health but you're talking about at least two different grudges here, hiyo. ♪ oh, but don't get one against me for saying so!
Those aren't grudges! I couldn't less about that girl, or about what Eichi-kun's doing!
Though I *am* curious about how he handled SS being called off. The Tenshouins sunk an incredible amount of money into it this year, so that must have stung.
Dealing with the media circus can't be fun. But I suppose Ibara's getting it much worse than him right now. And I don't really have space to worry much about either of them much at the moment, since we're the ones in real danger, so oh well.
~No more worrying~ ✨ For now, we'll just focus on finding out what happened to Rinne-senpai, and making love through that shuffle thing!
[........
He meant "making lovely music." But at this point, oh well.]
Nope! Haven't heard anythin' like that before! [ KIDNAPPING??? Maybe they shouldn't be looking out for Gatekeeper, but Sena and Tsukasa instead. Jun almost drops the utensil in his hand, shaking his head as he continues flipping the egg. ] You're serious, right!? Are they tryna be in their 'bad boy' era or something?
[ No, just kidnapping people they care about, apparently? Jun doesn't think he'll understand, either way, it sounds in-fucking-sane to him. Maybe Eden with the whole 'Gatekeeper is Ibara's uncle, Nagisa is probably a test-tube baby' angle Eden has going for them, seems to pale in comparison.
Thankfully, Jun's done now, placing the freshly cooked Omurice onto two clean plates and sliding one over to Leo. His expression is so amusing that Jun can't help but smile, despite learning two members of Knights have kidnapped people?? ]
That's good he thinks that way! It's nice you've got someone lookin' out for you, despite whatever the hell he's done with the whole kidnapping angle. So that's the sorta thing you guys've got going on ~ ♪
[ FOOD...! Leo shuts up to take the first bite of his, happily. He clearly wasn't lying about not having eaten in a while, so there's some content humming as he goes...he's not a difficult palate to please, but even he can tell Jun knows what he's doing. He'll probably bother Jun for food periodically in the future as well...please always feed him, Nami.
Still, he is listening, so he'll reply eventually after a few eager bites. ]
Oh, they both want to be "good boys"~? They're just really intense about stuff they like. ♪ Well, in Sena's case it proooobably was kinda my fault - if I hadn't up and left him like that, he wouldn't have ever thought about locking someone up so they couldn't get hurt, I don't think?
[ He has so many chatty castmates...! But honestly, yeah, he'll let anyone borrow his kitchen. He's easy. ]
Yep! I mean, yes to all of those~! It's industrialized, but honestly there's rural areas still too. And lots of trees and plants and animals! There's a lot of cats where I live, actually~?
[ There are other animals as well. He just likes the cats best. ]
[ Leo is absolutely terrible with names so it's fine...he wouldn't remember Midnight's name yet if they'd exchanged them and certainly doesn't care if Midnight knows his name or not. He ends up making it to the elevator pretty easily - his own normal attire is jeans and a sweater, and he...
Realizes belatedly he has no idea who he's looking for. Whoops. But there's a guy with a guitar, so...? ]
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