holidays call me out post

[knightess]

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A note that Ravus is Episode Ignis (plus Extra Verse) compliant, but please warn in your toplevel if you're going into spoiler territory! thank C:

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[wantsnudes]

BIKE HOMO RUNS INTO ARTY DUDE WHILE HE'S scavenging desperately for free food SHOPPING AT A MINI JUNES IN TOKYO... idk but yes, college era Yosuke could be fun!

I LOVE THAT IDEA

[goodanswer]

[It's always exciting to be back in Tokyo. Yosuke still misses it every day, even though he's gotten used to country life over the years. There's just something about the city - the speed of everything, the crowds, the sounds, the lights, the constant movement. Always alive, always something going on, always something to see.

Today is a national holiday, which is what allowed him to take the trek into the city in the first place. Between that and the sales for Christmas and New Year's, the department stores in Ikebukuro are swarming with people. Even that dusty planetarium at the top of the Sunshine City building is trying to get in on the action with discount tickets.

But Yosuke is an insider. He knows the right places to go at a time like this.

Along one of the backstreets a few blocks from the subway station was a Mini Junes, crammed into a long but narrow seven-story building. The aisles were tight and packed to the ceiling with items, mostly made in Japan - everything you could possibly need, except for perishable groceries.

The third floors in these are always the dry goods, and because today is a holiday, the store's running the same promotion as always: free samples of holiday chocolates. Yosuke walks past the table, takes a sample, and disappears down a cramped aisle of made-in-China winter hats and beanies.

A few minutes later, someone who looks suspiciously like Yosuke, wearing a hat and pair of sunglasses (with tags still on them), emerges from an aisle on the other side, smoothly walks past the distracted store worker, and swiftly takes another sample before diving back among the racks.

Hah, this was always fun. It feels nostalgic. And it's a good way to eat for free, if you don't mind the sugar.]

[wantsnudes]

[It had been the lure of the Planetarium that had brought Yusuke to Ikebukuro, and he'd managed to snag himself a discount ticket to his favourite star-filled haunt. Afterwards, though, he remembered he'd forgotten to factor into his budget an important thing like eating, which left him wandering around with empty pockets and a growling stomach. Just another day ending in Y, in other words.

Spotting a Junes was like finding an oasis in a desert, because they almost always had some kind of free promotions he could scavenge from. No sooner had he entered and snagged a few chocolates from a stall, though, that he noticed the same young man he'd spotted only a minute before returning, but in different clothes (???) to take another round of chocolate. It's not quite a Phantom Thief heist, but some level of preparation certainly went into a tactic like that.]

... That's very impressive. [Said idly as the young man ducks past him.] Do you do it often?

[Teach him your ways, Senpai.]

[goodanswer]

[There's a voice. It takes a second for Yosuke to realize it was directed at him. As he slowly chews the caramel-filled chocolate he'd plucked from the sample table, he looks over at the young man talking to him.]

Huh? Uh...

[He's not sure what to make of this. He kinda feels like he got caught, but this kid also looks like a high schooler. Yosuke continues to chew, and then removes the hat from his head to place it back on the shelf.]

I... don't know what you're talking about?