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[The smiling, cheery photographer does not appear to be in right now. What the feed gets is someone who is tired, frazzled, and angry.]

I'm glad to see that it looks like everyone made it out of that mess alive. I don't- I don't really know what to make of what we saw down there, but I can say this: I'm not really fond of a bunch of Gods that would put kids through something like that. That was bullshit.

[There's a pause while he tries to get himself under control.]

I need a drink. I need ten drinks. I'm going to go get ten drinks. Someone tell me if there's a place in town that has good drinks.

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I'm going to kill you, you didn't tell me the Kousaka's daughter had a stand here!

[Distraction~]

That bad, eh? I found a place while everyone was gone, first round's on me.

[Wh.]

Uh.

[WELL YOU SURE DID STOP HIM FROM LOOKING SO ANGRY.]

...surprise.....~!?

Kousaka candy! In Union! You were holding out on me!

Praise be to the asshole birds I was almost killed by yesterday.

I wasn't holding out on you! You just never asked! I've been bringing home her manju for weeks!

I thought it was a stash from Caldera or that you sent an order to the store in the city or something!

[Snort.]

Meet me in the center of town in ten minutes, nimrod. You can tell me all about these birds.

Not all of us were kids, y'know.

...but yeah, I see your point. [Here's someone else who's not quite full of smiles and cheer as he normally is. Don't mind the shiner that he's sporting now.] Maybe they could've left out anyone that was under-aged, at least.

Well! Now you know! I don't think she's going anywhere so you can get as much of it as you want. She needs the business anyway. You should give her a lot of business.

No need to tell me twice. I love that candy--and I won't share.

Jerks.

[He's just being petulant, now. He will be at the center of town right at ten minutes. He looks no less frazzled than he did on the feed.]

[And Taki is his usual lumbering friendly self, walking up behind Hayato and draping an arm around his shoulders to steer him to wherever he found alcohol in the absence of Dwarf House.]

C'mon, you need to take a load off.

That would have been preferable.

[He takes a deep breath.]

I sort of get what they were maybe trying to show us, but how many of you have even seen a war before? What right had they to put the weight of a choice like that in you and the other's hands? I'm just--

[He's mad.]

Don't share! I have my own!

Not if I buy it all up.

You don't have to tell me twice.

[He goes with him.]

Nothing stupid happened while we were gone, right?

You won't if I get there first.

Belbul will help. She loves their stuff.

[He gives that a solid thirty seconds of though, scrunching his lips up under his nose.]

Not unless you count the stupid amounts of paperwork I had to file about the earthquake.

[He huffs a laugh.]

That's good. What's this place you found, anyway?

And Goro will break anyones ankles with his bone for getting in his way.

Good thing Az can fly, huh?

[Arm still draped over him, he turns them abruptly to a little store-front.]

This little gem. Friendly staff, decently flavorful appetizers, and good beer. Not all hope for Union is lost.

Hayato... I get why you're mad. And yeah, they should've been more careful in who they chose to put in that scenario. But I think I get why they felt it was necessary to do that. A test and a warning.

...at least we passed the test? [He's trying to cheer him up. Soft Steel's face-palm, however, shows how ineffective that last statement might be.]

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