Cats, Books, and Noodles

[assaultedramen]

[Thanks to the, uhh, "generosity", of Gilgamesh, Miki has finally found some employment. However, sitting behind a register at a bookstore late at night, no matter how ridiculous and golden that register may be, isn't really her idea of fun. The books do nothing for her either, as books are also rather boring to her. After two dull nights and desperate for some excitement in her life, as her injuries have made constant nightly shadow hunts unwise, Miki has decided to throw herself into her second passion which has seen little use since her arrival at Prospero: getting people to visit her store.]

Video, sometime around 8PM Friday.

[Miki's phone is propped up against a pole in such a way that the viewing angle shows both her and Gil's bookstore in full behind her. Smiling, Miki begins speaking loudly and cheerfully as she makes exaggerated gestures towards the bookstore.]

Hey! Are you bored? Do you like reading books? Do you like coffee? Do you like cute things with cat ears? Well now you can have all of them at The Bookstore! Come on down to the Kitty Cafe inside and we'll make sure you'll have the best time you ever had inside a bookstore! T-this definitely means you too Lion! Nyan~

[Miki brings her arm up to her face in an imitation of the Maneki Neko pose before she runs up to the phone and shuts off the feed.]

Action - The bookstore

[The inside of Gil's bookstore is now filled with about two dozen stray cats that Miki has headed in off of the streets. Most of them lounge about in the way that cats are wont to do, with dispositions ranging from affectionate to disinterest. None of them look overly sick or diseased or infested, Miki did screen these cats personally, at least. Miki herself is running around, wearing her normal clothes and completely absent any sort of superfluous ears, handing out coffee in cardboard cups to the few bewildered customers inside. She has a few bandages on her hands and face, as well as a few minor red scratches.]

Comments

[assaultedramen]

He's not exactly the easiest person to get along with.

Especially when he calls people mongrels.

[athngabla]

And he does that just about all the time. To customers too, I'll bet.

[He grins wolfishly, taking a sip of the coffee.]

If I'm to be blunt, he's either the most, or the second-most dislikeable person I can think of offhand.

[assaultedramen]

He does, though he hasn't called me one since I beat him up over it. It's made working here a lot more pleasant.

[athngabla]

Wait, you...?

[This is Lancer. This is Lancer laughing loudly and unreservedly. You may get the impression he'd give Miki a hearty pat on the back if that thing about her being crazy-injured wasn't broadcast to everyone a while ago.]

I like your style, little lady.

[assaultedramen]

[Miki beams with pride.]

Thanks!

It was the weirdest fight I've even been in. He took maybe two swings at me but he kept trying to ask me questions, so I just kept hitting him.

[athngabla]

What? Well, that's boring of him. You even remember what was so important he had to keep asking it?

[Tact: Not saying that it's probably a good thing he didn't fight back.]

[assaultedramen]

He screamed "Do you think you can beat me?" and "Are you stupid?" a lot and he also talked about he was some unbeatable hero from the past.

If he was they had pretty crappy heroes in the past.

[athngabla]

Some of 'em are pretty terrible if they're without whatever weapons they're accustomed to, apparently.

Odd that he didn't even struggle a bit. Figured he'd have more fight in him.

[assaultedramen]

I could have taken him anyway. I was happy enough to get the rage of him calling me a mongrel out of my system, even if he did never apologize.

[athngabla]

Give him time, he'll switch to personal insults eventually.

[Come to think of it, he still owes Gil a beating for that 'dog' comment... Maybe later.]

Gotta admit, I'm wondering why you're even working for the guy.

[assaultedramen]

He was the only person around here willing to hire me. A lot of places won't even talk to you if you tell them you were in jail.

[athngabla]

Jail. That's basically a dungeon, right? The hell did you do to deserve that?

[assaultedramen]

I chained the doors to the high school shut. Also for beating up a couple of the students.

[athngabla]

Oh. That's all?

[A beat.]

Wait. Why in the hell would you do that?

[assaultedramen]

I needed them to come out the front door so I could test their skills. The redhaired girl didn't like me spraying her with a hose so she attacked me and we were going at each other when the cops did show up.

[athngabla]

And that's something you can get in trouble for, nowadays?

[He takes a moment to wonder if Scathach is still around in this age, and if she'd gotten in trouble with ~the law~ for her teaching methods.

It is becoming increasingly hard not to laugh at that.]

[assaultedramen]

Something about firecodes and people walking in with guns. They also don't think beating up a 14 year old is self defense, even if she did hit me first.

[athngabla]

Ah. More boring paperwork. When did people start to care more about talking than about taking action?

[assaultedramen]

Yeah! It's not like I was going to hurt the normal kids or anything. They need to be trained to fight these things. Course that prosecutor guy was hell bent on throwing me in jail for it.

[athngabla]

Prosecutor -- wait, you mean Edgeworth?

[assaultedramen]

Yeah, that jerk. He was really unhelpful.

[athngabla]

He's... committed to his duty, from what I can see. I don't know much about the law system, but I think that'd put him at odds against you in that situation, right?

[assaultedramen]

I know, but he was acting like I had killed a bunch of people or something.

[athngabla]

You've met the guy, obviously enough.

Can you imagine him acting at anything other than maximum seriousness?

[assaultedramen]

He did seem kind of flustered when he hung up on me after we talked on the network when I got released. But every other time he seemed pretty stuck up.