OPEN POST: Ren Amamiya (Joker) - Persona 5

[tookyourheart]

henlo friends it's that time again, toss in a prompt/starter/idea so we can thread

I've played and completed Royal, but I would prefer to remain unspoiled for Scramble!

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[tookyourheart]

I don't mind. Maybe you can spot me a drink next time?

[Next time as in, totally not another date.

Regardless, he's already getting up to order her a milk tea, and fruit tea for himself. It doesn't take long given it's less busy today, so he's back within a minute.]

They'll bring our drinks over.

[lapapesse]

That... sounds like a good idea.

[She's definitely more focused on the idea of being able to repay him and keep things even than... well, the implication that they might be going on another date later. Er, for all this isn't a date.

When he returns, she nods. She has her notebook up and open, and the math book opened to a tabbed page. She nods as he returns and sits back in the booth.] Good. Was there anything about what you're studying you're stuck on?

[Scholar mode: Activate.]

[tookyourheart]

There's a few example sentences here... Some of them are easy, but others I'm not so sure on.

[He turns the book so she can see a sentence he's particularly stumped on: "The manager said his team ____ win the soccer league and they actually did ____ season."]

Is the first word "would" or "will"? I guess it's in past tense, so "would" sounds correct, but he's talking about a future soccer league, so maybe future tense?

The second blank gives the option, "the next" season or "next". Is there really a difference?

[This is the kind of technical question he'd ask Makoto's advice on rather than Ann, who can speak fluent English but who wouldn't exactly be able to pin down the nuts and bolts of grammar.]

[lapapesse]

[Hm, curious. Makoto sets a hand against her chin as she thinks it over. It's about as complicated as she thought it would be, and a bit different from what she remembers, but she likes a challenge.]

Well, 'the' is a definite article in English, so it would be 'the next' season, since it's a specific soccer season...

[So that answers the second one, and she works backward from there.] Which also preserves the tense of the sentence. So if we're preserving the tense across the entire sentence, I believe it should be 'would'. Also, it's not directly quoting the coach, so then it probably...

[She seems to second-guess herself a little, eyes narrowing. She's pretty sure she has it but - then the drinks arrive. A quick, easy order is delivered fast, at least.

The sudden presence of a waitress makes her jump a little, though, and turn, breaking her from the rather intensive concentration. English is definitely a difficult language, but maybe Makoto shouldn't get into her own head too much.] Oh, sorry, thank you.

They've got a quite sticky sentence there for second-year curriculum.