Part 2

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(Oh, Ten-kun is here…!)

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…O-Okay, I can do this…

H-Hey, Ten-kun…!

Mm, what’s up~?

P-Please…be friends with me!!

(Friends, huh… Not the first time I’ve heard that one. Talk about deja vu.)

So that’s what you wanted to say to me while you were standing in the doorway, fidgeting all this time?

Y-Yes, that’s right!

Hmm…

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(I see. There's the bodyguard.)

Why me? I don’t think we’ve really talked all that much.

W-Well—It’s because we’re the same age!

Haha, that’s a new one. Don’t think anyone’s given me that as a reason to be friends.

Huh…!? B-But, generally speaking, most people in society have friends that are the same age…

I suppose. But doesn’t it really depend on the person?

I-Is that how it is…?

I… haven’t really had many friends my age…

I thought if I became friends with you, we could do things friends the same age would do…

But I guess… we can’t really become friends for that reason…

Well~...

(You’re dead fucking meat if you say no, Murakumo.)

(His keeper’s supposed to just be watching, but he isn’t hiding his bloodlust at all. I’m crying.)

(Oh well. Guess I can’t screw around too much, or it’ll be a pain in the ass later…)

U-Um… Ten-kun?

Sure.

…Huh?

Starting today, we’re friends. Wanna shake on it?

Th-Thank you so much…!

No need to be so stiff, right? We’re friends of the same age, after all.

Y-Yeah…! Thank you, this makes me so happy…!

Well then, here’s to our new friendship…

Oh, wait!

So um, you see, the only thing I’m good at is fortune telling… So as thanks for becoming my friend, please let me—

Oh, sorry. I don’t really find that kinda thing useful.

R-Really!? I… I see…

Oh… But I can’t do anything else… Even though we just became friends…

(Be ready to find yourself in fucking hell if you make Toi cry, Murakumo.)

(Ooh, how scaaary. Those are some real sharp daggers you’re shooting there.)

Hey Toi, wanna lend me your phone for a sec?

My phone? Okay, here…

Done. This is my favorite stamp. A more fitting way to celebrate our friendship, right?

Yeah…!

Thank you, Ten-kun!! I'm gonna use it lots from now on!

…Matching stamps with a friend…Ehehe…

(So easy. This is definitely deja vu…)