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Yujin Mikotoba ([personal profile] professorbestie) wrote2022-10-02 10:39 pm
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[Please use this for any IC one-on-one contact, either through the journal or in person. Also, finishing up other threads.]
judicialassistant: (sad smile)

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-04-05 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ Susato answers him with a solemn nod. ]

It is... but there is a time and place, and I do believe I've troubled you enough for one evening. And we've certainly been dealing with enough.

[ She sighs, but manages a smile when she looks up from what's left of the snacks. ]

I should shower. Then... I don't know. Perhaps I'll see how he's getting on. [ There's another weary glance towards the room they gave to Kazuma. Maybe she'll at least make sure he has enough Dawn petals around, given that Yujin has likely been monitoring his healing. ]
judicialassistant: (listening)

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-04-06 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ The nudge, small a gesture though it may be, actually does a lot to pull her out of her thoughts. It's not exactly in her nature to just leave all the tidying to her father, but before she can fight him on that, she stands, and Yujin definitely gets a hug from his daughter. ]

. . . Thank you. [ For everything. ]
judicialassistant: (worry)

Backdated some days after flower fest

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-12 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . Father?

[ Susato calls out, opening Reverein's clinic doors slowly. Things have calmed down in the days since the Flower Festival, yet after coming home from Kazuma's, Susato still hasn't been able to bring herself to say anything about what's happened. At some point, even she realized she was making excuses, and today she's found yet another one.

This is where she finds her father nowadays. Even during the festival, it was difficult to tear him away, and she's just realized why. ]


I... I just realized Dr Mathis is no longer here. You should have said something... Do you need help?
judicialassistant: ([fa] hair do 3)

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-14 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ She can tell when he's distracted, and she very certainly isn't helping matters. She should feel better, knowing that he isn't interrupting a patient who needs his care, but instead she sounds almost like she doesn't know what to say. Maybe she's a little distracted, too. ]

Oh. [ She mutters quietly. She almost leaves it at that, but then she feels the weight of the bag she'd been carrying, bringing it around so that it's in view. ] Well, I've brought some lunch for us. Would you like to take a break?
judicialassistant: (determined)

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-14 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She'll give him a more confident nod upon seeing that smile. After three days of festival junk food (delicious as it was), she decided to go with something else, despite the fact that there were already discussions about new menu items. Inside the bag, there is a spread of different flavored sandwiches, not unlike the ones she made for 76 upon his recovery from being a noctaere.

She'd added those to the Wild Harvest menu, too. Maybe she's hoping it'll go over just as well, but for now she just nods, giving a wary glance at the door where she'd just come in. ]


Of course. I remember where that is.

[ So she's not shy about leading the way. Perhaps she's still going over the words in her head, but it's not long before they're there. She automatically sits, unwrapping the bag to reveal the box of sandwiches, and also both flavors of cookie (sakura-shaped and dawn-shaped). ]

I . . . Um, did you enjoy the rest of the festival?
judicialassistant: (listening)

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-15 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She may have noticed a slight wince when he sat. Susato does what she can to help him when she notices him working around the greenhouse, but some aches and pains here or there are unavoidable, she supposes. She lets it be and cracks a smile as she sets out everything, and she pushes one of the sandwich boxes Yujin's way. ]

I miss my cloud already. Still, the flowerworks were more than enough to make up for the loss.

[ Among other things... She truly doesn't know how to tell him either. Truthfully she was probably only half-paying attention to the show by the end, but here it is. Her best attempt. ]

There's... something I should tell you about that... actually.
judicialassistant: (me?)

1/2

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-16 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Susato catches that brief moment of paranoia, but it passes so quickly she thinks she might have imagined it. She definitely doesn't have the time to process it. Maybe that was just him realizing how hungry he was again? (Did he even eat breakfast this morning?)

Nah, she's just dragging this out. She shakes her head to keep her eyes from going wide, and manages to resist slapping herself in the cheeks. ]


No... Well– [ Yes? Wait. No. Nope. ] Not exactly the flowerworks themselves. But I...

[ ...She'll quietly let Yujin sweat it out for a few seconds more before she gathers herself. ]
judicialassistant: (embarrassed-mysterious)

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-16 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ No regrets, right? ]

I kissed him. I kissed Kazuma-sama.
judicialassistant: (lineface - alternate)

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-17 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . [ Well, it's not like she was planning to go into detail, but that reaction still somehow seemed... reserved. Maybe it just hasn't sunk in yet, but that also seems so very much like her father.

Fingers tense around her box of sandwiches, which remain uneaten. ]


Maybe I shouldn't have said anything, but I vowed to keep no more secrets.

[ She can still hear Reaper's laugh through his armor when she mentioned that she told Yujin everything. That it was easier, better for Reaper to keep secrets from his own parents. She refused to believe it, of course, but she still hates the vague feeling that he's right. ]
judicialassistant: (me?)

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-18 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He is a good man. It does go without saying, though hearing it from Yujin, she can't help but visibly relax her shoulders, a feeling of relief coating her like a blanket. That feeling still persists, even through Yujin's next words, though Susato does find herself stopping suddenly in the midst of playing with a flap on the box.

She'd been just about to open it-- ]


What? [ Genuine, innocent confusion. ] You mean you also...?
judicialassistant: (worry)

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-18 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ . . . Mother is dead. As much as Susato wishes things were different, that she could at least remember her face, it's a fact, and she would not be so cruel to assume that Yujin could never love anyone else in that way.

She was furious, thinking he had fathered Iris, but that's something different entirely. You can't cheat on someone who's dead.

That said, Susato really doesn't know how to react. Her mouth hangs open, and she feels a pang in her chest, like she's being left behind again, though she quickly realizes that's not the case. (In the first place, wasn't she the one who wanted to tell him that...? Sure feels distant now.) ]


That's...! That's wonderful! A, A bit... a bit sudden, perhaps? [ Should she have seen this coming? She's confused. ] Um... isn't it wonderful?
judicialassistant: (gasp)

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[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-19 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Seventeen years. There's a bit of a pause as she considers this oddly specific time frame. That's just about as long as she has been alive, and she opens her mouth to say as much, but as the thought crosses her mind, so does an epiphany of a legendary partnership. 

Oh. ]
judicialassistant: (thinking)

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-19 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ No, wait. She's probably wrong. She is hesitant, but speaks the name like some sort of taboo. ]

Mr... Mr Sholmes?

[ She might have assumed it was a lady, at first. Surely Yujin met plenty of women across their various cases, and maybe one would have had an impact on his life as much as Ayame did. It's not like Susato would have ever known.

She closes her mouth, still unable to say anything more, but the more she thinks about it, the more sense it makes, and her expression seems to ease to match. ]
judicialassistant: (lineface - alternate)

[personal profile] judicialassistant 2022-05-20 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Susato stays quiet for a while while Yujin speaks, and probably for a little while after. Everything is still sinking in, but she feels compelled to speak, because she'd rather not leave her father lingering in that uncertainty for any longer. It's not as if this changes anything about how she feels either.

It's just... unexpected. Though the fact that it feels as such is probably a failure on her part. ]


No, it's not... it is not that odd. You already had a very strong partnership, did you not? One that you were able to pick up right where you left off, after ten whole years. Not even most marriages could withstand that. Not even with the most dutiful of wives.

[ Though who is she to speak of marriage, anyway, or being a dutiful wife...? ]

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