[open] They didn't have taro ice cream bars and I'm still vaguely butthurt.

[convictionary]

Who: Gaius (convictionary) and various and sundry other people, yes, it's ice cream time.
When: Post-Lasker intro log
Where: Lasker, starting off in an ice cream parlor because I can.
What: Investigating Lasker stuff while eating ice cream.
Rating: Probably some innuendo and mild cursing because it's me, and I might use a vulgar metaphor and/or analogy at some point.

[So, as Gaius stared at the ice cream bar shaped vaguely like Kaito's head (chocolate flavored) he couldn't help but say.]

That ain't right.

[They could get to Double Duo and doing other things in a second. Right now he's distracted by ice cream bars shaped like people he knew.]

Comments

[convictionary]

Anytime-...

[...

At this point he'd throw in an actual friendly nickname but there's something about her that's utterly...generic, but he can't say that so there's an awkward nickname shaped hesitation.]

Figured I couldn't be the only one eating. And everybody loves ice cream. [He's also going to noticeably move them away from the parlor before someone looks outside and notices that he engaged in some petty theft.]

[sealeted]

Careful making offers like that. I might just take you up on that.

[She follows after him without comment, still happily savoring her treat. It occurs to her, once they're a few streets away that he...





--doesn't actually know her name! She learned his via ice cream, and forgot to return the favor. Oops.]

Oh, I'm Hakuno by the way.

[convictionary]

Hakuno?

[Didn't he hear that name before? (No, spoilers, he didn't, he's mistaking it for something else, but he's going to wonder about that for a few seconds.)]

Hak...nah. Got a question for you. You got any other names you go by?

[sealeted]

Well, my Carrier handle is Hakunon if that's what you mean.

[She wipes a smear of cream from her lower lip and licks it off the pad of her thumb. She's... She's not going to bring up 'mongrel,' 'Little Squirrel,' or any of the other more colorful monikers she's collected. Nothing doing.]

Why do you ask?

[convictionary]

Nothing major, Hakuno. [Though he'll remember that and her carrier'll be harassed somewhere down the line. Look forward to it.

They're now heading towards the Double Duo arena, even if he has fuck knowledge of what lays ahead of them.] Just figuring something out. What did the bosses give you for a weapon?

[Segue! From...trying to drum up a nickname if at all possible, possibly not, she might end up earning her own section on the list.]

[sealeted]

[Hakuno, poor trusting fool that she is, continues to let him lead. She certainly doesn't know these streets better than him.]

Oh, a bow. It can infuse poison into whatever arrows I manage to buy. It's... a work in progress, since I've never used one before.

[convictionary]

[Unbeknownst to the both of them they'll be encountering hero body pillows and a hero otaku shop in the next few moments, so also look forward to that.] Nice. I got a- [He flips out a candy cane from...good question and offers it to her, if she's so curious.] Don't lick it if you're thinking about it.

[Probably not, but...he needs to warn people about it, okay?]