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⭐ 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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[he nods and does a little 'ooh' noise as Bruno explains. He can't really imagine the taste of it but... He makes a brief pointing gesture, and you can see the lightbulb go off above his head]

So a little like onigiri, except... Ahaha- instead of rice, you'd be using the ingredients you had available to you there too.

[he thinks it's a good comparison; this seems like a much better corn based cultural exchange than candy corn]

It sounds tasty. [this is where he would ask about how to make them, but hearing the last bit puts a slight damper on the mood... So Keiwa decides to switch gears, well meaning but a little clumsy in his execution] I wonder if Maki-san knows of a place around here that might serve them. It feels like she knows everyone and everything around the city sometimes...

Uh...yeah, I guess it is kinda like that.

[Not exactly, but he guesses he gets where it's coming from!

Maybe he could still try making arepas. But he was always more of a sous chef than anything, for Julieta. And it's been a long time, and....well. He's just not her.]

Oh - oh yeah? I don't think I know her.

[He can't really comment on the likelihood of finding arepas in Yumemeigaoka. Sure, he's been around a while, but it's not like he's canvassed the place for them. And he hasn't been anywhere else, so he's not sure if that's like...a thing people do, generally. Like how you can find Chinese or Thai restaurants most places.]

[he can't believe it's happened again...]

Y-you can tell me if I'm wrong, you know... [a little flustered, but he recovers as gracefully as he can]

Yeah. She works here in the DU, so you might run into her now that you work here too. Last time we chatted... I think she said she was in IT? I don't think it'll hurt to ask.

[this is the power of pure optimism. Even if they couldn't find it... Maybe it would be a nice little cultural exchange? With how foreigners tended to pass through the DU, it wouldn't hurt right? Right??]

Oh, huh. I haven't really been over there. Not like I have a computer.

[For work, or personally! It's fine, Bruno's not all that great with technology to begin with.]

I'll have to check that out, though. Maybe she'd know something like it, at least. [Granted, even if they do have an arepa restaurant here, he's sure it's not gonna be really the same. The food here's definitely different from when he'd slink into Japanese restaurants back home.]

Really? Maki-san tends to be everywhere...

[he doesn't even question the computer thing. Maybe he's assuming Bruno has a laptop instead? Either way...]

Mmm... That's true. I guess if you're in a different country, it's probably not the same...

[he'd tried the American BBQ last summer and nothing there had tasted anything like the 'American' food you'd find in Japan]

[Bruno shrugs a little.]

It'd still be fun to try, though! Maybe I could give them some tips!

[Probably he wouldn't, but you know.]

[it's the thought that counts]

That would be fun. Maybe we could do something like a culture exchange in the DU... Last year there was an American-style BBQ during the summer. Though I don't think the DU organized that one.

[he went from being pretty cheerful about to being pretty sheepish. He'd forgotten that the DU might not have been behind that... Not that he knew who the anon benefactor of the event was]

Oh yeah? Do they put stuff together like that sometimes?

[Bruno really doesn't care who organized a BBQ that he wasn't around for, but if the DU does do events like that occasionally - maybe he'll be around for one! Although maybe he should be more careful about big Dreamer social events...]

Mhm! [nod nod] I think Ai-san's planned something for Valentine's, and the HR team put together something for Halloween last year.

They're opened for everyone who works at the DU to join in too, so you should drop by if you have time.

Oh, that's nice! That they include everybody, I mean.

[It probably wouldn't have been quite like that back home. Not that they had any big organization like this in the first place, and not that they ever treated the townspeople worse - it was all about helping them, after all! But...well, he hasn't been around in a long, long time, but it's always seemed from what dreams he's observed that Mirabel...

...well. It's nice they work like that here, anyway.]

[softly;] Yeah, I think so too...

[then he brightens up]

It's called the 'Dreamer's Union' but the people helping to keep this place running are important too!

[does he really not suspect anything? More than likely, he's just letting it slide; if he needs to know, people will let him know]

Oh - well, sure, I guess. Thanks!

[Bruno, as paranoid as he may be, isn't actually a very suspicious person. He takes this at face value!]

You're welcomed.

[totally airheaded auto-response-]

Ah- I have a couple people left to give these to, so I need to head off. I'll see you next time?

Uh, okay - yeah, yeah, sure. See you later!

[Bruno stands there and watches him head off, still holding his chocolates. It's been a decade since he got anything from anyone like this...how nice!]

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