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[i_peace]

⭐ Who: Keiwa and whoever runs into him
⭐ When: Throughout February!
⭐ Where: Around Camellia, the DU and Koubai General Hospital in the waking world, various(?) locations in the Dreamsphere
⭐ What: Working at the Kissaten, passing out chocolates, donating blood, being ignored by the Nightmare because he's a chump and entirely too trusting/honest with people. 8(
⭐ Warnings: ???

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Camellia - Throughout February

[i_peace]

[It's not uncommon to see Keiwa waiting tables at Camellia. He's doing his usual hours early in the month but can be spotted helping with cleaning up at the back of house though he leaves the plants to Mr. Yugi and Shinsha, well aware that his strengths lay in the cafe side of the store.

Entering the store any time of the month results in nothing less than a cheerful greeting. It's easy to see why Keiwa's been assigned as greeter]

Welcome! Feel free to take a seat, we'll be right with you!

[While he keeps his usual upbeat cheer around guests, his attitude is a little more muted if anyone he knows from outside of work chats with him towards the second half of the month. Could it be Valentine's blues?

Finding him is pretty easy, being front of house an all, but every so often you might catch him in one of the corner booths taking a break from work]

[liedol]

[ It's been a while since Ai's had the time to drop by Camellia, but with no meetings and no urgent Dream Sphere business today, it seems like the perfect excuse to take an out of office day and park herself and her laptop in a booth somewhere a little more conductive to a chilled out headspace. She still plans to work, because this is Ai and of course she does, but doing it at Camellia at least lets her trick herself into thinking she's taking it easy.

She gives Nanami, Shinsha and the others a cheery greeting but it's not until she heads all the way to the back that she spots - ]

Oh! Keiwa-kun, there you are!

[ She laughs and gives him a little smile. ]

Sorry! I didn't realize this one was taken.

[i_peace]

Ah-! [he looks up from his phone, a half-finished cup of juice on the table in front of him, with a start. It takes a second before he relaxes and sits up]

Hello, Ai-san.

... Oh- No, no, it's fine! I can move if you want to sit. [he laughs, sheepish] There's always room in the back, but it's just easier for me to move back onto the floor if Yugi-san needs me for anything.

[liedol]

Oh come on, no way am I kicking you out when you're on your break! And besides, you were here first. Maybe we can just double up for a little bit, if you don't mind sharing?

[ There should be enough room, since Keiwa doesn't have a meal or anything - so she carefully settles herself into the booth and sets her laptop down in turn. There's enough space that they're not crowded in, at least, but it's a good thing they're at the back of the store regardless. The last thing she needs this month of all months is anyone getting the wrong idea. ]

There we go, that should work... ah, how is work today, anyway? Not too busy?

[i_peace]

Oh, yeah, sure.

[even with all the avilable space, Keiwa still moves his juice before shifting his seat over as well, clearly giving the lion's share of the table to Ai without any sort of prompting]

Well... It was busier a little earlier... Ai-san's lucky to have just missed it, I think. Even if it was mostly just coffee and small orders, or people coming in to buy flowers for loved ones.

[he seems pretty cheerful about it. In spite of the romantic atmosphere, it seems Keiwa really is just happy to see other people are enjoying themselves]

Valentine’s chocolates - Feb 13-14, around the DU or Moon Bunny Market

[i_peace]

[Maybe he shouldn't have bothered with making chocolates for people? Keiwa's small chocolate ganache chocolates pale in comparison with the size and scale of Ai's Valentine's Buffet... Well, he was never going to compete with such a well established idol anyway.

But he made chocolates for friends and he intends to pass them out!

He'll be approaching people he knows around the DU or at Moon Bunny Market and passing them a small package of homemade chocolates with a cheerful "Here you go!"

D-Does he realize the implications of giving chocolates on this romantic holiday? Look at that cheerful smile on his face, he absolutely does not. This tanuki truly living up to his animal representative and living life at his own pace...]

[coorow]

[As Keiwa goes around passing out chocolates at the DU, he may start to get the feeling that he's being followed...not that Cooro is doing much to be stealthy about it, rather just trailing behind him like a lost puppy. So if he turns around, he's definitely caught. But with the look on his face, he doesn't seem to be too bothered about that...]

[i_peace]

[there's a small child following behind Keiwa, and normally he'd be much more concerned about it-

No, he's very concerned about it]

Um... [Said child looks familiar though. Since they're at the DU wouldn't that mean that they were also a Dreamer? Well, no harm in asking, right?] Are you all right?

[he meant to ask 'do I know you' but that just sounded unnecessarily mean, so...]

[coorow]

[Keiwa, to Cooro, is near unrecognisable without the costume and the ears and tail. So, he doesn't feel too bad about the lie he's about to pull.

At his question, he gives a nod and a smile.]

It's just that it looks like you've got a lot of chocolates, so I thought you could use some help giving them out!

[i_peace]

Well...

[and Keiwa can't help but laugh at that. Does he suspect it's a lie? Absolutely not! But this is something he's just passing out on his own, it seems a little rude to ask someone to help him with an otherwise straightforward task]

It's all right, you don't have to worry about helping me. But here.

[He puts down his backpack to fish out a small package- Actually, it looks like all the packages he's put his chocolates in are quite small, little gift boxes that fit four, maybe six, pieces of chocolate at most. And Keiwa fishes one of those small boxes out to hand over to Cooro with a smile.

Give him a minute, he's trying to figure out why Cooro looks so familiar (the gears are turning...)]

[dullshooter]

[When Keiwa stops Misfire to hand him some chocolates, his first thought is - well, actually, it's to take it without asking any questions. You don't question free food.]

Hey, thanks, loser!

[He says with a grin, ripping open the things already.]

Just so you know, I don't feel the same - no offense, you're just not my type - but I'm not gonna let your feelings go to waste.

[What is he, a monster?]

[i_peace]

Wha- Feelings??

[well, Misfire might be a monster but Keiwa is, in fact, an idiot, so miscommunications were bound to happened. He gets suitably embarrassed even though no romantic feelings were involved. Actually, he's probably more embarrassed because there were no romantic feelings involved!]

I-It's nothing like that! I'm just... Handing out chocolates to people I know.

[Look at these sad tanuki vibes. Misfire, you monster]

[dullshooter]

Hey! You don't have to sound so defensive about it. I'm a catch.

[Well. He knows full well he's not. But still!]

So, what - [He takes this moment to pop a chocolate in his mouth. To nurse the wounds to his ego.] - you're just running around giving them out to everybody?

[i_peace]

I- That's- Hmm...

[there's no saving this and Keiwa is forced to give up. Why is he even trying to justify this? Or maybe he wants to let Misfire save face (but why he bothers with such a thing still remains a mystery)]

... Sort of? Just... People that I know. [he's not Ai levels of social butterfly, after all. He watches the other man chomp down on a chocolate and kinda... Stares, wide eyed at him for a couple of seconds before cautiously asking;]

How is it?

[predecir]

.....oh, uh...

[Bruno's startled enough by being approached, much less with chocolates, that he just takes them automatically! They're in the hallways of the DU, although Bruno isn't technically on the clock right now. He's just.........well you know don't worry about it actually!!!]

Thanks? Why, uh...why?

[like, he's not concerned that it's a Valentine's Day thing really, because he's like more than old enough to be your dad, but you still kinda gotta wonder!]

[i_peace]

[joke's on you, his season's writer has a thing for putting DILFs with twinks- I mean wait, what?]

[but no, Keiwa just smiles cheerfully at Bruno as he shoulders his backpack full of homemade chocolates again]

Well... Why not? [a laugh and though he seems a little shy about it, Keiwa doesn't let it hamper his upbeat mood] I used to help my aunt prepare chocolates for customers at her cafe. To show appreciation to the customers- Uh... as a thank you.

[he adjusts his Japanese vocabulary, to try and accommodate a learner]

[predecir]

Oh. Well, uh...thanks?

[As a thank you for what? Maybe...maybe he's just giving them out to all the staff here. That would make sense! Though it'd also be an awful lot of work...]

I didn't...make anyone anything...

[And now he feels kinda bad he has nothing to give back! But - well, why would he? He doesn't know anyone here that well, he had no reason to expect he'd need gifts.]

[hanamane]

[Keiwa can find Amane easily enough in the shop when the day comes, nestled in his usual booth in the back and clad in his loungewear. He's feeling well-ish enough at the moment to help tie the custom cards onto the bouquets ready to be picked up, placing the completed bundles on the other side of the table so Shinsha or Tsukasa could go pass them along to Mr. Yugi for safekeeping. It's light work, although he does still pause every so often to try to catch his breath despite being largely stationary.

He's just about finished with a modest bouquet of spray roses when Keiwa approaches the table, and he glances up at him... only to be handed a box of chocolates instead. He blinks at the package, uncomprehending, trying to wrap his head around what he was seeing here. The only Valentine's sweets he's ever really gotten were ones from his family or the obligatory giri choco from his classmates in elementary school, so to be handed one like this, out of the blue...]

Keiwa-san...

[Carefully, he presses the box back towards Keiwa's hands, the look on his face one of somebody who's trying to figure out how to gently let someone down.]

Sorry, but you're a little too old for me...

[A-AMANE???]

[i_peace]

[there's an ambiguous little 'hmmm' from Keiwa when Amane pushes the box of chocolates back at him. The wrapping paper is dark and dotted with stars and, mindful of Amane's condition, Keiwa had only packed the strawberry ganache ones for him. Honestly, if the chocolates themselves weren't pink, there's no indication that these were for Valentine's in the first place. Even the shape of them (simple stars, so he could separate the batch he made for the Yugis from everyone else) gave no indication of what holiday it's meant for]

Well... I guess I'll just have to give these to Tsukasa-kun too...

[is what Keiwa says, but he puts the box of chocolates down on the table for Amane anyway]

I've been getting that response a lot. [he laughs, cheerful in spite of the 'rejections' he must have received] I know it's not that common for a guy to just give chocolates like this, but... It's nice to receive something, right?

[hanamane]

[He was mostly trying to get a rise out of Keiwa with his rejection (you couldn't say Amane was devoid of mischief, even in this state of his), but upon closer inspection of the box, even he couldn't help feeling a small twinge of guilt from his initial response. The paper was pretty enough that it was a shame to tear into it-- maybe there was a way to keep it intact to save for later?-- and the little pink stars within were far nicer than any sort of giri choco he's received before this. It was clear that Keiwa had put a lot of thought and care into putting these together, as unconventional as it was, so when he suggests passing them along to his brother, Amane slooowly slides the box of chocolates back towards himself instead, pointedly avoiding his gaze.]

No... you've got enough work to do as it is. Tsukasa's already going to be halfway up the wall with whatever you just gave him.

[And this was without the knowledge that Keiwa made coffee chocolates on top of the strawberry ones....... hopefully, for everyone's sake, he had the foresight to leave those out of Tsukasa's box too, lest he wanted to peel the boy off the ceiling again...!!

Quietly, he pops the lid off of the box, plucking one of the strawberry stars out to admire. Keiwa wasn't wrong in that sentiment, especially when someone didn't exactly have a lot of friends to get chocolate from, but...]

If you really wanted to give people stuff, though, why not wait until White Day? I mean... it is nice to get something for Valentine's, but people might get the wrong idea, y'know?

[A beat, as the rest of what Keiwa says finally catches up to him, and then:]

... actually, it sort of sounds like they already have. Just how many people have you given chocolates to already...?

[reluctants]

[ Keiwa can definitely run into Illya at the DU. In fact, maybe it's exactly when Illya is coming in to receive her chocolates from Ai - even if she doesn't know that's what's about to happen. But it is while she's just walking into the building on the way to visit Ai's office when she's stopped by Keiwa..

.. or rather, by the package he's holding out to her.

Illya stops walking the moment she sees it. Her eyes linger on the package for a moment, but then her gaze slowly travels up to the other's face instead, the young girl's eyes growing so wide in the process. It's like she's seeing a ghost.. ]

For.. me..?

[i_peace]

[a lot of the packages he's been giving out have been little ones that were in packs of four - two coffee chocolates and two strawberry chocolates - and decorated as it was sold. But for Illya, he's given her decidedly cuter packaging; deep pink wrapping paper with cute yellow stars of varying sizes artfully dotting it. Keiwa wasn't sure if she would like the slightly bitter flavour of coffee, so he stuck with the safest option of giving her only the pink berry chocolates]

Of course!

[he lets out a little laugh. Maybe he hadn't been expecting her wide eyed expression]

So... Here. [the chocolates are still held out for Illya to take]

[reluctants]

...

[ Yeah.

There's another moment of just staring. Sorry, Keiwa, sure hope your arm isn't going numb from just holding those out!

Though Illya does finally take them. It just took her a few moments, and even once she's taken the cute package from him, she's just staring at it as she's holding it in her hands. It's like she is indeed totally mesmerized by the chocolate, or just by everything that's going on here in general.

Once she finally snaps out of it enough to not look at the pink packaging, the young girl raises her gaze to meet Keiwa's once more. ]

U-Um, so.. What kind of chocolate is this, Keiwa-san..?

[ That's a question that could be so easily misunderstood, Illya!! Girl!!

But she's still a little too surprised to properly think about her wording here. ]

Blood Drive - Feb 20, Koubai General Hospital

[i_peace]

[Keiwa just finished his own blood donation and was relaxing with a bottle of juice. Every so often, a nurse or another volunteer at the blood drive chats with him like they recognize him... And judging by his response, it's probably people he met while volunteering]

I've been helping out at the store more, so I haven't been coming in for volunteer work. Maybe next time...

[When not chatting with staff or other volunteers, he settles down to people watch. For now, he's being responsible and not overexerting himself... But that doesn't mean he can't start wandering around to chat with any familiar (expected or unexpected) faces he sees at the blood drive]

Mandatory (and belated) Dream Sphere Option - early February

[i_peace]

[The Nightmare is targeting people with unspoken feelings for each other. For better or for worse, Tycoon seems to have been largely ignored by said Nightmare. Is it because he's honest with his feelings? Because he's an airhead? Because he's... Totally boring?!?

In the unlikely event you have something to say to Tycoon, consider this comment your chance to run into him! Tycoon, on the other hand, is largely spared from the madness of the romantic season because he's a tanuki that moves at his own tempo.

But mostly, he's an idiot]