Can we be Adam?

                champagne pink tones shine vividly as she peers up at him past long lashes and then back down to the baked sweets in the box.    ❛   um  …  these are for me, or … ?  they smell so delicious–   ❜   ( as expected of talented ruki-kun, after all   ! )

⟡ ═══ ♛ ═══ ⟡ “If you tell that guy where I live, you won’t even get to drop your new album.” that’s a no, Kou. It’s totally NOT fine. Keep your pervert and slaughter him yourself or something.

⟡ ═══ ♛ ═══ ⟡ That subject change was so obvious that one can smell it from miles away, but it’s fine - she’ll bite. “The usual~ Killing vampires and making money off of their corpses~” quite a thing to cheerfully announce to a vampire, no?

     ˙ “Somehow still not killed, so everything’s going juuuuust fine~”

“Ah so same as usual eh? Well you seem well off and happy I suppose. That counts for something right?” He chuckles, somehow both relieved and yet sad that she seemed to have moved on so easily. A selfish part of him wishes she would at least admit to missing them, if even a little. But perhaps that was wistful thinking.

⟡ ═══ ♛ ═══ ⟡ “Knowing him? He’s been juuuuuuust fine.” If he hadn’t wanted her to pack her bags and go back home, handing over the mission to someone else, he shouldn’t have caused a huge argument leading up to it.

     ˙ “Having fun either with someone else, or with the stick up his ass.” with a big old ‘fuck that guy’ heavily implied in her tone.

Kou can easily pick up the hint in her tone, and he can’t blame her, not one bit. After all, Kou was still recovering from the whole ordeal, resulting in his being home less and less until he decided to disappear.

“Y-Yeah...” He muses. “He’s different but the same. Like how he was before you, or even Eve-I mean Yui. Just cold.” Kou shrugs then, slowly floating back down to the ground. “Not sure how to explain it, but I haven’t really stuck around much since...that.” Since his brother locked him up in the dungeon for three days.

⟡ ═══ ♛ ═══ ⟡ “Ehhh… if it’s like that, doesn’t that mean you’re dead meat?” buried alive indeed! He might just decide to use Kou as fertilizer for his garden!

     ˙ “So? What’s up, buttercup?”

“Besides just missing my favorite shopping and gossip buddy, not too much. Oh I did score a date with Subaru-chan before I left, and it ended horribly. Learned my lesson there I did.” Kou chuckles, deciding to float a bit above the area.

⟡ ═══ ♛ ═══ ⟡ What’s that? Isn’t that a certain familiar blonde she hasn’t seen in a while? Sure looks like it.

     ˙ “Yo,” her greeting is as casual as ever. “What are you doing here?” moreover, he must feel awkward being near the rather large forest cottage she lives in with Miira and her dad. Not only is it close to a town filled by hunter-related people, but it also contains various anti-vampire wards. He’s lucky she sensed him lurking outside or who knows how long he’d be waiting, being that a vampire can’t even make it to the doorbell?

“Oh you know, just hanging around. Was in the neighborhood and decided to stop by.” He jested, as if he hadn’t expended resources trying to find where Eiri went, having grown rather lonely without her presence in both his and his brother’s lives. Speaking of which...