o, wonder!

Happy birthday to you, too! Hopefully you can come next time- oh, but you don’t need to feel bad about missing it this time around! You’re still here for us idols for the most part, so that’s what counts, you know?

That is true, but birthdays are special! Thank you, by the way, Amancio ahah! 

I’m sure it’ll be fine! There’ll be another party like that one sometime, I bet.

I appreciate the sentiment, but I’m oh so obligated to! I have to be there for all my fellow idols

“  A companion to face my hardships…? You’re a brave and noble person Miss Murasaki.. I did not mean for my declaration to belittle you. ”

  He scratched the back of his head, Murasaki perplexed him to say the least. She seemed to get him, through his eyes anyway… He was always excited to make a friend, whether he liked to show it or not. His expressions of embarrassment and joy gave it away all too easily. Subtlety was always something Hiro lacked severely.

“ I merely was suggesting I be an ally to you.. I suppose even myself can use a hand every now and then.”

He wasn’t quite sure what she was suggesting, though he could use a lot of work in some areas, he’d never admit it.. At least not publicly. 

“ I may out stretch my hand to you, not as a damsel but as an equal.”

Now that sounds better, she thought. Murasaki likes Hiro, she really does, but he was starting to get annoying. Cute, but annoying. She enjoys surrounding herself with all kinds of people, notably those with confident personalities, even if it was a facade. 

But how dare they? Thinking they can speak to her as if she needed them? They’ve got it all backwards, really. It is them who needs her. It’s too early to say or do anything, but she does want to keep this boy around.

Murasaki slips her hand into Hiro’s, taking his expression literally, the skin of her palm and fingers soft against his. “I do appreciate the offer! My gratitude! Ah, I took no offence, worry not... I was under the impression that you take on a lot of weight upon yourself, a trait that unfortunately a lot of dark knights have... If that’s not case, I very much still want to help carry it.”

As Eve sat around waiting for Murasaki in the studio he decided to spend his time wisely. After all he was aiming to become an idol right, so practice surely makes perfect. Right? Wrong. Rather than be productive, Eve instead did what he always did. Play video games, this time it was Animal Crossing: New Leaf as he had just restarted his town. (well. bought another save file digitally as his cartridge version was hacked and therefore wouldn’t allow online access.) If only he was as productive about everything else as he was about games.

Looking up only upon hearing the knock on the door and his name, Eve shoved the console into his pockets and jumped to his feet heading towards the entrance. 

As he came face to face with her a grin grew onto his face now being able to place a voice to her name. “Yo, that’s me Rasa~! Here just like I said I’d be.”

As the awkward air of silence set in Eve shifted his weight back and forth trying to think of something to say. Anything would work right?

“So uh. I wanted to hang with you just ‘cause I didn’t want you to think only about the first thing I said to you. Y’know? I sent that to everyone as a joke– some people thought it was funny, others shrugged it off– uh, but you seemed to be caught up on it somewhat when we talked in the group chat? Just ‘cause you seem cool and all so I rather you not think I’m like trying to get your nudes right now or whatever.” Not that he wouldn’t like them. By no means, he would not argue with getting nudes from anyone here. 

“Plus, I’m sure we can find somethin’ to do. Like clean up this place a bit or something. Though, if what we do is more on the fun side that’d be preferable.”

The corner of Murasaki’s lips twitched ever so slightly but her smile refuses to falter. Who on earth would start a conversation by bringing up that? Has Murasaki really been so outwardly unsettled? Though, she supposes, that it is better to get such a thing cleared up and out of the way. She’ll give Eve that. 

Yet, she still can’t help but feel... Skittish. Not that Eve poses any danger or something of the sort, but the very idea of any type of smut flusters her more than she would say. 

In an attempt to maintain her composed disposition, she blinks at Eve inquisitively then laughed into her hand. “Oh, my, are we still on that topic?” Ah, on second thought, it was her who keeps bringing up in the chat room. “...Though, I’m also guilty for having mention it time and time again. But! I agreed to spend time with you, have I not?” Saved. “Does that not show my forgiveness? Rather informal but what’s past is past, as they say. I did assume it was an innocent jive, anyway.”