[ AFTER THEIR TALK souji heads over to the university like he said he would with the bottle of O2 he promised to bring and some books (he still has one more exam before he's completely done this semester). he arrives at the front lobby after twenty minutes like he said and he looks around for her ]

Akane?

Souji!! Hi!!

[She seems out of breath, literally. Akane laughed too hard at their little singing session. Please save her with 02. ]

Glad you can make it.

Hey.

[ he turns his head to her and gives her a small smile ]

How are you holding up? I tried to make it here as quickly as he can.

I'm okay. I'm slowly catching my breath.

[She smiles at Souji to reassure him of this.]

You seem a little different from last time we met. Have you gotten taller?

[ souji will start to open his messenger bag so he can get her that bottle of o2 but he'll talk as he does it ]

I think I've grown an inch since last year, but did I have the old man hair and eyes the last time we've talked?

[ souji can't remember when he exactly got it. he's had it for about a year now so he's gotten very used to his stupid silver hair and eyes ]

Old man ! [She's laughing again. Stop this!]

Your hair was black before. That was a while ago. I think I remember correctly.

[Akane might be a weirdo but her memory's pretty good.]

That's correct. Before I caught the Old Man Germs or OMG for short, I had beautiful black hair. You were one of the lucky few who got to meet me before I was overtaken by the disease.

[ he actually made a post about this in... march. i can't remember, it was a while ago ]

Don't worry. I don't think it's contagious anymore so you don't have to fear catching it.

[KNOCK KNOCK, AKANE. Amidst the sea of vanished NPCs, there's one (1) Kashuu who's taken it upon himself to try getting the city back in order as fast as possible and drag as many people down with him as he can. He wasn't cut out for this life of community service, but here they are...]

Akaneee, are you in? It's Kiyomitsu.

[ Wow, she's so glad that you're safe and out of harm's way for the most part, Kashuu. ]

Hey, Kashuu! I'm in.

[She opens the door and greets neighbor-kun with a smile.]

It's good to see you again. Are you well? What's up?

Oh, y'know, just the usual. The city's falling apart again, blah blah.

[WAVING A HAND. Despite his flippant speech, he looks Tired, though... He really is worried about the missing people and the fact that their city is apparently under attack thanks to some mysterious force that apparently outranks even Retrospec.]

If you're up to it, I was thinking we could hit up town and get working on some of these tasks and stuff.

Oh yeah...the city's still a disaster. I'm up for it! I spent all of last month catching up on my studies.

[She shoots Kashuu a thumbs up.]

My professors aren't going to chew me out for falling behind. It'll be okay. [Med school is serious business.]

Let's go help everyone.

Y'know, it's really impressive that you still have the energy to worry about that kinda stuff.

[As much as he loves fashion and design, he sure hasn't been paying much attention to it over the last few months. Maybe even longer than that... But he doesn't really want to think about his life spiraling wILDLY OUT OF CONTROL either, so!!]

I've got a list here. Anything look good to you?

[He pulls up tasks he's written down from various districts on his notepad app, flipping the screen to show her.]

I'm not going to give up on being a doctor that easily! Studies are my life.

[Akane proclaims it as loudly as she can without shouting!]

Let's see.... I want to tell you my favorite story! It seems simple enough, right? We don't have to go very far to get that one done.

[ jouhei does want to help the city, he really does, but man... some of these tasks are pretty out there. he's one his nokia block phone (which is still the worst thing in the world and someone should take it away from him), reading the list of things to do and he's so ???? luckily, he at least has akane to help him out so please aka-nobi kenboi, you're his only hope ]

What's... an "embarrassing stunt"?

[ is he asking what it means or is he asking what to do (spoilers: it's the latter one) ]

Have you ever seen dance videos before? People always make up odd poses for their dance routines.

It's similar to that, in a way. Here, I can show you.

[Akane linking Jouhei a video with Recolle's version of Girl's Generation. There's a bunch of cute girls doing poses!!]

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[ wow a phone that can play videos. amazing. jouhei's nokia can't do that. he watches the video but then he just looks at akane. here's your STARING ]

... are you suggesting we do that?

If we want to bring everyone back then we have to make a pose like these young ladies!

[DO IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT, JOUHEI.]

Come on and try it with me.

[ .................................... just how much does jouhei care about the npcs. he doesn't exactly have anyone close who disappeared.............. ]

... I'm not good at dancing or posing.

Oh, that's too bad. I'll see how well you do for myself.

First put your arms up high like this.

[Akane's making some demonstration for Jouhei so he can copy it and be embarrassing. ]