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[deaftly]

--shit's supposed to record my voice? Why the fuck would I want to leave a message on this thing anyway? They should know who the fuck they're calling if they're calling me in the first place, and obviously I'm not gonna pick up if I don't like them so...

What do you mean it's already recording?

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[preybeforemeals]

[.....................]

...Do you know what it is?

[deaftly]

Of course I do!! What the fuck would make you think otherwise!?

[Aside from all the very obvious signs??]

[preybeforemeals]

Go on, then.

I want to hear you use it once for me.

[deaftly]

[UM.......]

N-No way! Just for that I'm going to stick to calling you Americano!!

[HELP]

[preybeforemeals]

[...oh wow

holy shit

he kind of has to laugh at this, give him a moment - ]

You really have no idea, do you?

[deaftly]

That's not--!! Sh-Shut up!!

[HE HATES YOU]

[preybeforemeals]

That's why you were resorting to descriptions instead of my name when you were looking for me last month, isn't it?

[shut up naki this is fucking priceless]

You could have told me, you know. Now I'm just tempted to not tell you.

[deaftly]

You're such a fucking asshole!!

[WHAT DOES HE DO other than kind of die, he's doing that already]

[preybeforemeals]

Very eloquent, monsieur.

[deaftly]

Yeah, well. Shut up.

[preybeforemeals]

As fascinating as this line of conversation is, are we finished?

[deaftly]

I guess so, unless there was something else...?

[preybeforemeals]

I don't think so.

[He pauses for a moment after that, however.]

I'll likely be staying in this city for the winter; I'll let you know if anything changes.

[deaftly]

I'm glad to hear that. Besides, you'd have to be crazy to travel now! The weather's probably gonna get fuckawful!

[preybeforemeals]

Apparently it's due to snow soon; were we less generally fragile here I'd do it anyway, but as it stands, I'm not going to consider.

[deaftly]

It'd suck either way, but you'd probably just freeze now.

[Though apparently that wouldn't kill you permanently...?]

[preybeforemeals]

[Well, yes, but he doesn't imagine the actual act of dying to be terribly pleasant, Naki.]

Or run into a multitude of other issues.

Greed-san was doing an excellent job of reminding me how easy humans are to kill earlier.

[deaftly]

Oh yeah? What were you guys talking about?

[preybeforemeals]

His own abilities, mostly. He's looking forward to having them back.

[deaftly]

I guess I'll have to ask him about them sometime. So he thinks this weird-ass time's coming up when we'll be back to normal?

[preybeforemeals]

He does.

...Normally I would be perfectly fine with the idea of being able to hunt again, and I've seen more than my fair share of targets that are incredibly appealing here, but I'm not sure what we're supposed to do about it if we need to eat something when that time hits. Revealing ourselves is out of the question.

[deaftly]

Yeah. Everyone would remember and that'd make things really complicated. Did he say how long these things usually last for? If it's only for a little while we should be fine, but otherwise...

[preybeforemeals]

A few days at most, which will either be perfectly fine or...well, not, depending on the state we're in. Given that we've been relying on human food here, I don't know how well-off we'll actually be.

...There's also the slight problem of being unable to kill here while having the body be useful for anything. They vanish immediately, remember? So even if we had to...

[deaftly]

Oh. Yeah, I didn't even think about that. We've been sustaining ourselves here on human food, but who knows if that'll actually do anything for us once we've gone back to normal.

[That's a scary thought...]

I guess we could just pick someone and not kill them. You know, eat 'em while they're still alive.

[NAKI]

[preybeforemeals]

...I've left them alive before. You want to be careful about it, but it can be done.

[...Tsukiyama that is the exact opposite of helpful]

...I'll be fine either way. As I've said to you before, I have other ways of sustaining myself if nothing else.