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(Note: Terry gave Kido his phone. Bought his own flipphone on 8/26!)

He has a stall set up in the market street for locating things. Feel free to thread it out with an inbox action thread or handwave it!

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[ I love that Terry respects his cats' freedoms and lets them be friendly strays, while Mondo is dedicated to building his cats their own beds and getting each a cute collar with studs or ties. ]

Yeah. ...I think.

[ They're all asleep so she can't tell haha but if they were awake, it's the one that bumped her hand first for pets and that's deserving of an honorific. ]

Anyways, Hana-chan is Hana-chan for the same reason you're T-chan.

[ Because it just is, don't question it, Terry. Hana-chan is somehow cuter than just plain Hana, or something. ]

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[ It looks like he's come to an understanding of that. He hasn't used honorifics for anyone unless he's forced to at work, so it's been another cultural shift for him. ]

I get it. That's cute though, isn't it? A flower with a flower. It suits you.

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[ It's cute and the name suits the kitten, but Kido doesn't really feel that the same applies her, glaring at Terry instead of giving him a proper response, mumbling something about kittens being cute by default, but also that they're Terry's cats and he's responsible, although she'll help him out.

Just not now, because she holds the second bag out for him to take. It's punishment for being embarrassing, even though Terry can handle a couple extra pounds of kitten with no problem. ]

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[ At least she knows that he's completely sober this time and not under any other influence when he says such sappy things to her. Terry takes the second bag of kittens, still smiling. ]

If you combine the names, you'd probably get something like "Hanami" and I'm sure you can spell that like "beautiful flower".

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[ Maybe his therapist drugged him, she doesn't know!! ]

I guess... Why would you combine the names, though? What's the point?

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Because they do that with small groups of pairs, don't they?

[ His logic here is that meshing names is cute anyway, so why not. ]

It's fun making up names... [ If it's not as important, as... say, the hirajiro mystery gang. ]

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You mean pairing names, like for your fanfiction.

[ That's a thing she knows of, but not any other time you'd mash two names together, especially not a person's and a cat's ]

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I told you I don't write those!

[ KIDO....... this is going to be recurring thing, isn't it? ]

... And what's a pairing name?

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[ Yeah ]

A pairing name is sort of what you did, splicing two people's names together, so you can refer to them by one name instead of two. So, for Souji and Minato, it would be something like... MinaSou?

[ Would Kido know any of this, I don't know, but Mary is into this sort of thing so I'd imagine it's been mentioned at one point or another ]

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[ naruhodo

He learns new things every day. ]

They sound like new names. Like... actual names.

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[ please don't naruhodo this, Terry... ]

That's the point. Anyways, let's not talk about them anymore. It's kind of weird.

[ It edges too close to real person fanfiction and she doesn't want to go there ]

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[ He's been saying that he doesn't like doing that kind of stuff, Kido! AAAAAAaaaaaa ]

Okay.

[ At least the house is right there. ]

Let me drop the cats off and we can go to an arcade.

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[ There's "doesn't like" and "doesn't do," which one's the truth ]

Sure, I'll wait outside.

[ The arcade's a surprising choice- but at the same time, it's a very normal one. She suposses that's what people do when they hang out, stop by the arcade after school and stuff, but there were always games back home if they felt like playing anything, so she rarely ever goes outside to an actual arcade. ]

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[ You know the truth... is in your heart...

Terry goes into the house and comes back out shortly after. It's time to get a normal slice of the normal life, Kido. ]

Let's go!

[ ... With one of the most abnormal guys here. ]

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[ My heart is full of concern for Terry all the time

Kido breathes a laugh when Terry comes out acting like a little kid, and she holds her hand to him. ]

Someone's excited. But let's take our time and walk, instead of zooming straight there.

[ Because that would be an immediate end to a normal slice of the normal life, if Terry were to pick her up and run 80mph to the arcade, please don't ruin this ]

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[ Terry immediately holds Kido's hand and swings it a little on their way to the arcade. They're walking in normal speeds, like she requested. ]

Of course I'd be excited! Why wouldn't I be?

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Most people don't get this excited unless they've never been to an arcade before, or they're five.

[ She's going to assume he's been to one before, not like with the festivals where he was so excited to go to every one of them, even if they all turned out to be pretty similar in the end. ]

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You're calling me five...

[ Even the one time he looked like a kid, he didn't look THAT young... and yet... ]

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I didn't say that.

[ Not in those exact words. He's young at heart! it's fine!! ]

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But you sure implied it.

[ Though he's not mad. When would he ever be legitimately mad at Kido... Hm. ]

Anyway, I heard they have this crane game... I think there's a game console in it.

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[ There are so many things about Kido that can get really annoying, and lots of times that Terry would be justified in being mad at her, but instead he just makes that long suffering face lmao ]

A game console... built into the game? Or as one of the prizes?

[ Either way, that grabs her attention more than shooters or other sorts of usual arcade games there are. Crane games in general usually have toys and stuff as prizes, and Kido doesn't need any more stuffed animals but that doesn't stop her from wanting them. ]

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A handheld console! Though I don't know which one it is...

[ He doubts it's anything from his time, so... ]

It would be convenient, since we don't have a TV.

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Maybe something like a PSP... We had to share one as kids, but we had the sort of console that connected to the TV too. Your phone should have games on it, though?

[ Fancy phone from the future should be capable of it, but she doesn't know about Terry's current one. Maybe it can run tetris? ]

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My phone has... puzzle games.

[ ... ]

I liked PC and console games better than mobile games, so I only downloaded those as timesinks while I waited or something. It has classic stuff like word connect, tetris, bubble shooter, 4dots (yes), 2048, caocao block... yeah.

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Wow... I can't imagine you sitting there playing such boring games for very long.

[ She was imagining something more like how I've played KOTOR on my phone before, fancy phones from the future should be able to do at least that much ]