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[evidentiary]

[ solution make it his journal title thing ]

...All jokes aside, do you have any notion of how to get unstuck? Even the haziest guess wil do to start.

[compendiem]

[ I hope nobody ever looks at his journal


But also :( What if he wasn't joking, Kyouko?? He was only sort of joking, and in the meantime thinking about what to do about their situation. ]

Hm... Things are commonly stuck together by ice or glue. We could try warm water.

[evidentiary]

[ I HOPE EVERYONE DOES ]

That's logical, so I concur. Let's use one of the family restrooms, I suppose...?

[compendiem]

[ The ones for little kids who can't pee without supervision...? He looks at her, looks at their hands, looks away. ]

Yeah, alright. It's the public places that have them, right? Libraries, the zoo...

[ Family places. Crowded places. ]

Where should our first date be?

[evidentiary]

The library. Since I work there, it'll be easier to get in anyway...

[compendiem]

[ Brave of her to walk into her workplace like this, but Minato has no objections turning towards the library and the warmth and quiet of the building.

He's quiet for much of the walk, letting his feet fall and lift automatically while he lets Kyouko guide them, following the tug of her hand while he gets lost in this memory about takoyaki and lychee butter and wasabi soy sauce. Literally lost, a frown working its way on his face even as his eyes refocus on the street, but mostly because that memory got him hungry and it isn't fair with food no longer being enjoyable. ]

[evidentiary]

[ ............minato what. ]

Is everything all right?

[compendiem]

[ He doesn't know either okay ]

I... "Sirloin tastes great with salt and pepper, or eaten with wasabi soy sauce, so I hope we get along"...?

[ Just sort of parroting back the last thing he heard from the memory and hoping Kyouko can make sense of it, but mostly it just makes him hungry. He can relate to this memory girl very much. ]

[evidentiary]

...While that isn't untrue, what a weird thing to say?

[ JUST BLUNTLY CALLING HIM ON THAT ]

[compendiem]

No... I'm not the one who said it.

[ Well, he did just now, but not in that memory. He shakes his head to clear it, but most of the words are gone by now. ]

I saw AU Arisato and another girl in this same position. Hands stuck together. How they got it to stop.

[evidentiary]

How did they get it to stop?

[compendiem]

They got married.

[evidentiary]

[ .............

...............................? ]

I don't see how that follows...

[compendiem]

...Neither do I. [ an early new year's resolution is to be more positive, though, so why not start early ] But it worked.

[evidentiary]

...Well, if you want to consider us married, we can try that.

[ it might match up with the 10 minute tie limit...

a christmas miracle ]

[compendiem]

Let's try it.

[ He barely knows what couples do, let alone married couples, so after a pause, Minato continues towards the library bathrooms anyways. Washing hands together sounds like a passable couples thing. ]

[evidentiary]

Here we are, then...

[ WASHING THEIR HANDS and...being freed! success?! ]

[compendiem]

[ They're free...! Minato genuinely looks surprised that it worked, but- oh. He waves his hand under the automatic paper towel dispenser and hands it over to Kyouko. ]

It worked. Dry off your hands?

[ They must be uncomfortable. Wet. Inside those gloves. ]

[evidentiary]

...The gloves will dry.

[ THEY'RE WHAT SHE'S USING THE PAPER TO DRY...while on her hands.

hm. ]

[compendiem]

What if you get trench foot? ...Hand.

[evidentiary]

These gloves are specially made not to get in the way of my life, so...they're fairly water proof.

[compendiem]

They sound pretty useful. Would I be able to specially commission a pair?

[evidentiary]

Perhaps...? That said, I don't recall where I commissioned them from. I got them from Retrospec.

[compendiem]

So Retrospec can give out useful gifts sometimes too, huh...

[ while he gets a blinding bow and Dave gets shitty sords ]

[evidentiary]

I suppose it depends on if you had anything useful in your past life?

[ also she's leaving the restroom now so ]