Solace

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And suddenly there was a new Red King.

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Saito sneered, rubbing his bicep and pretending to be in pain. "Damn it, Shu. That hurt. A lot."

It never really occurred to Saito just how long he had known Shu for. Seventeen years old, he had been when he met the person who was now the Red King. A genius of some sort who was wicked smart, smart enough to skip through a bunch of grades; unlike himself, who essentially became a failure in life despite early success.

"This place never gets old," Saito said as the three of them arrived at their destination after strolling through the bustling streets and sidewalks, peering through the windows. As Rin walked inside, Shu stopped him. "Huh?" he blinked as Shu told him something about her. "Geez, one of those things, again. Kinda makes me wonder if it's something all girls go through." Or is it just midgets? Hm...

Though the café was not exactly Saito's most favorite place to grab something to eat and drink, it was one of those places that he knew he would come back to when he was older. It might not have been like the bar, where he had met Shu and formed what was now HOMRA, but it had a homey feel to it.

Taking a seat at the usual spot, Saito threw his head down onto the table and sighed. "Man, I can't take my naps anymore with the whole framing-us-for-shit-we-didn't-do thing," he complained. "Like, seriously, why us? We do SCEPTER 4's job of beating up thugs and gangsters half the time, anyway; WITHOUT those cool sabers and fancy uniforms, too!"

As Saito was about to close his eyes, he snapped back into attention as Shu asked him if he got something. He lifted his head from the table and looked down at the menu that his face had been on, his eye catching one of the drinks that he usually ordered. "Oh yeah. I'm getting that. With some ice would be noice," he finished the last word of the sentence in English with a stereotypical Australian accent.

A pair of bells rung as the doors to the café granted entrance for a person. Curious, Saito's head turned to peer over his shoulder as his mouth opened up in surprise, seeing two familiar faces. "Yo, Chew!" he called out loudly, instantly causing the conversation across the rest of the tables to cease. Suddenly, the café became his most favorite place in Japan.

"'Scuse me for a sec," Saito's tone reverted back to normal for a moment as he addressed the Red King, his goofy face returning soon after as he kicked his chair back and walked up to the pair, flipping his hood off. "And Mister Mika, too! We got ourselves a full house, here."

"... Hey, Saito." Cho greeted. Though, as Saito was about to continue the conversation, a bunch of images began to flash through his head. "What-" he rubbed his head as he was left confused at what he had seen; a man beating whoever's memories they belonged to, and insulting them. "Okay. Weird. Anyway-"

All of a sudden, someone burst through the entrance of the café, and sure enough, it was yet another person he knew. It had been one of the boys that had been instructed to stay at the bar to keep watch, but... the boy ran past Saito as he stopped near the table, out of breath and announcing that there had been a series of explosions near HOMRA.

"What in the hell," The lobby went quiet once more after the announcement as Saito ran up to the boy and grabbed him by the shoulders, spinning him around so they were looking at one another eye to eye. "Why in the fuck did you run ALL the way over HERE when I told you to call me if there was an issue?!"

The boy began to tremble in Saito's grip. "I-I wasn't told to call you..."

"Oh, great," Saito let go of the boy as he slapped himself in the forehead. "One of them. I only fucking told it to one-"

As if on cue, his cell phone began to ring. He dug for his phone, bringing it beside his ear as he answered the call with an irritated tone. "What is it?!"

"You have to get back, fast! There's been-"

Saito interrupted the speaker, the voice belonging to the one boy he had instructed to call him. "Explosions! Yeah, thanks for being late! I'll be there!" he hung up, quickly throwing the phone back into his pocket.

Saito briefly turned to the Blue King and Cho. "Look, I know you two are gonna miss me, but you still have that logo I spray painted near your headquarters to remember me by," he quickly turned to his King. "Shu, we gotta go. Now!"

And with that, Saito sprinted out of the café, towards the direction of the bar.

K: Misconceptions

Or maybe, we actually read the posts of others to avoid confusion and conflicting methods of approaching something.

oh well
gonna go work on the post now

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I know I am. I acknowledge my rude tone and I'm sorry for it (I say sorry too much somebody shoot me already).

But the detail remains.
And I'm not going to just remove it.

I'm going to end it at that.

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Okay,

I'm sorry, but that's kind of your own issue for typing your post prematurely. I'm not neglecting your work or anything, but to not remember that I already had my character instruct them to call him in case of said events occurring makes me feel like my work was neglected at that given moment. I'm sorry, but you're just going to have to rewrite it or something, because I've been eager to post and you've already had the opportunity to post before I have. If not, your own issue. Sorry.

I'm going to write my post now.
And it's staying the way it is.

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Kitty said
Well seeing as I like talking in person better, running isn't a waste in my opinion. And can't we just go with the running. When your panicking you don't think along the lines of logic. Especially if you consider the red clan. Someone barging in and being like. "EXPLOSION BY THE BAR"(Imagine it like "TROLL IN THE DUNGEON :P) It is more brash and a act-before you think based thing that fits with the red clan

I'm sorry, but I would rather go with mine. I just think it would fit into the flow of events better, and the whole not thinking when panicking thing doesn't apply to everyone. I'm sure not all of the Red Clan is brash and stupid, and I'm sure not all of the Blue Clan are devoted to work and such (example would be Fushimi who was lazy and distanced himself from the uniformity a bit at times by going off on his own instead of listening to orders). And, with the explosions in their own headquarters, I would think that they'd feel the need to stick around in case of another invasion, or such.

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Oh.

I mean, you can use that, but Saito also instructed one of them to call him in a previous post. So I'm not entirely sure.
If the method you plan to use is one of the clansmen running to the cafe to tell them, I think it'd be better to go with the call. It'd be more logical in their case because why waste time running there?

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But damn.

Everybody hates the Red Clan.
assholes we didn't even do anything this is madness persecution with no trial D:

EDIT: Oh yeah. The way that we'll find out is Saito receiving a call from one of the clansmen left in charge of staying at the bar. He instructed them to do so in the case something did happen. :3

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Oh well. Just gotta go with it, I guess. I'll work on it rye nao

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As I was prepared to post, it seems the entire ordeal was already initiated prematurely ._.