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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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[tantantaaan]

[ TERRY......... Roses are red, violets are blue, Leon is dumb, but so are you. ]

Mou... Rii-tan! [ He continues to stroke Terry's back, hoping none really gets stuck there. ] Excuse me, can we have a spoon?

[ It's like the waitress can sort of tell they're gonna be some kind of Mess, so she was already standing by in their proximity. She comes back with a spoon quick enough, and Leon hands it to Terry. ]

There. You can just scoop it like that.

[ ......

Leon then starts chuckling. Now that he thinks about it, this is just so silly. For the first time in these few days, he lets out a genuine laughter, even if it's much quieter than it usually is. ]

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[ Terry ends up swallowing the tapioca he's been choking on and tries to catch his breath. He takes the spoon and... does he have to resort drinking beverage with a spoon now... why!!! But fine, he takes a spoonful and eats some of the tapioca too, though it takes a while since he's wary from having choked twice. ]

It's like... jelly....

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Mm, mm! It's nice, right? What do you think?

[ It won't be the full experience drinking it with spoon, but he doesn't want Terry to die silly.

Meanwhile, Leon just slurps his drink without a trouble, popping the tapioca pearls into his mouth and munching on them like nobody's business. The look in his face is just slightly, very slightly brighter. ]

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[ Terry likes a brighter Leon. It's like a small chain reaction, because Terry feels like he can adjust to be a little happier too. ]

It tastes good... chewy things make me space out though, because they take so long to eat.

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Ahaha! It's okay. Sometimes it's good to just space out and not think about anything.

[ Which... is mostly what he's been trying to do. It used to come so easily for him - he didn't think of things deeply, not until RO leaves him-- leaves Hirajiro. In fact, this started ever since he learned of Terry's 'death'. ]

That reminds me, my groupmate back home-- Reiji-kun always says he's meditating, but he really is just sleeping. He's sleeping like half the day away, don't you think he's like a cat?

[ He chuckles quietly. ]

Even then, he always gets good grades, I don't know how he does it...

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But grades aren't everything, right?

[ As expected from someone who seems pretty book dumb. Terry keeps the smile on his face. It's not forced anymore. ]

Sometimes I wish I could sleep like that... but I'd probably get restless.

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Mm! It isn't!! At least I'm not the last in... um, our grade ranking!

[ He didn't say he wasn't last in his own class... ]

Do you always not sleep well, Rii-tan?

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I get enough sleep, but sometimes it's... hard. I can't tell whether I want to stay asleep or awake, but I know I need to stay awake, out and about.

[ Sometimes he doesn't feel like he has a reason to get up in the mornings, but he goes to avoid the recurring nightmares of his friends dying repeatedly (haha). ]

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[ Leon stares at Terry, carefully listening to what he said. And yet... ]

I'm not sure I really get it... is there a reason why you need to stay awake?

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I've been having nonstop nightmares lately.

[ Even if it breaks the previous happy atmosphere, he might as well come out with it. He knows Leon would appreciate it better if he was truthful about it anyway. ]

So it feels better to stay awake and do things... sleep doesn't really feel restful anymore.

[ Hence why his eyes looked really tired. ]