tvk | Cats, Books, and Noodles

[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.]

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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.

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

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

Oh. That's all?

[A beat.]

Wait. Why in the hell would you do that?

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.

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.]

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.

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

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.

Prosecutor -- wait, you mean Edgeworth?

Yeah, that jerk. He was really unhelpful.

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?

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

You've met the guy, obviously enough.

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

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.

Hmm... Think of it this way: people like him just try to excel. He was doin' his job, and you got stuck on the bad side of it. I doubt it was personal or anything.

I think he's trying to make up for all those people he killed.

That guy? Huh, never knew he had it in him.

Still. That's not really something you can "make up for", exactly.

I know! And he's apparently never been punished for it because he thinks he's to valuable to be punished. Then he goes and gets mad at me for thinking the system is messed up.

Trust me, whatever punishment they could give him? Well, a person with any morals at all's going to punish themselves far worse, of their own volition.

Yeah but that argument pisses me off when you're also saying that no one should be above the law.

Can't argue that. It's surprisingly hypocritical for someone like that, too.

I think he started crying and hung up on me when I told him that. Crying didn't get me out of prison.

He could've been practicing for a try at gathering pity.

Well next time he sees me the only thing he'll gather is my fist in his face, so it didn't work.

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