Sometimes everything happens during a single day, other times, during a single day, nothing happens. People experience both throughout all their lives, the lives of The Fools aren't so different.

19/04/2018 - 7:10 - Shujin Academy - Arisato Minako

Minako looked at the job pamphlet some more, while the concept of wearing a maid outfit as embarrassing, especially since she knew that it was a fetish of some people, however, the pay was really good, though given that it was Akihabara, it was likely that she would end up spending most of it in the same district, this would also give her an excuse to go to so many events, not that she needed one.

Money or Dignity? that was the question and dear god why was she treating this like she was prostituting herself? It was then that the door opened.

In walked her brother Minato, looking somewhat annoyed. He sat down in his chair with a huff, "Still can't find the head of the school newspaper, I think she's hiding in the lockers at this point." He said, in one of the rare moments when he let his annoyance show on his face. "You still checking out that job opportunity?"

"Yeah, I'm just wondering if the money is worth it," Minako said

"You're blowing your budget, you'll probably need the job." Minato responded, "Hell, it costs like 200 yen to get a ticket to Akihabara, right?"

"Yeah, something like that," Minako responded, taking a look at the pamphlet, I'll call them asking about the job after school." She stuffed the pamphlet back into her pocket.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say that you secretly wanted that job." He said, a grin on his face, he was right, Minako kinda had an interest in working in one of those cafes.

"No." She lied, her face turning a bit red, "Can we drop the subject, please?"

"Nerd." He said as he leaned away from her and pulled out the folder in his bag, reading through it and occasionally fiddling with the pages.

19/04/2018 - 9:40 - Shujin Academy - Arisato Minato

It was time for a class with the lovely Hiruta, the school's youngest teacher (according to him) and had one of the weirdest fashion senses that Minato had laid eyes on.

In terms of what he looked like, Minato would start with the head, he had perfectly normal Japanese features, his hair was done in what could be considered a bowl cut with a fringe that went off to the left. He had a rather thin frame that seemed like it was perfect for a Latin dancer, in terms of what he was wearing, he was wearing a pair of maroon suit trousers, to add to this, there was a black suit shirt, combined with a black waistcoat with three light grey verticle stripes on each side in symmetrical fashion. To top it all off, he wore an off-colour white cravat. See why Minato thought of this guy like a Latin dancer?

Minato had his head down copying down notes, Hiruta's teaching style was one of talking really fast, he only wrote important concepts on the board and didn't focus on waffly lectures. His head only popped up to record down anything new if heard the sound of something being written on the blackboard.

"Arisato-san." He said, causing both of the twins to bring their heads up, "The male one." he added, narrowing it down. "Since you look like you're paying attention, tell me, what is line A connected to." he pointed towards an optical illusion that he had drawn on the board.

"It's connected to C." He said, crisply, Hiruta made a hand motion that clearly showed that he wanted Minato to explain further. "it's an optical illusion, line A looks like it should connect to line B, but drawing a line between the two easily shows that it is connected to line C." He finished, checking his notes to make sure that he had that written down.

"Correct, I initially thought that you were recording down information without understanding it, but it seems that you work a little differently." Was that a compliment, it sounded like one but at the same time, it also sounded like a thinly veiled insult.

He could hear some murmuring from other students, but he paid them little mind and went back to recording down notes as Hiruta described the concept of the optical illusion at warp speed. What a fun teacher.

19/04/2018 - 12:20 - Shujin Academy - Arisato Minato

The group was gathered on the rooftop once again, though they were waiting for Makoto, once again.

"We might as well set up a table here or something." Minako thought out loud.

"Why?" Ann asked

"We spend most of our lunchtimes here and it would make it easier to eat our lunches," Minako answered.

"Are we pretending that there aren't large scale logistical concerns about getting a table of any kind up here?" Minato asked, "Because I imagine that there are quite a few logistical concerns about that."

"It was just a stray thought," Minako said, "though, yeah there would be a large number of questions why the school delinquents are sneaking in flatpack furniture." said, "though that would be funny to explain."

It was at this moment that Makoto managed to make her appearance, her breathing was slightly increased and it was obvious that she was at the very least jogging up to the roof.

"I've managed to get a photo of Ikki-kun," Makoto said, she pulled out her phone and showed the photo to the gang.

The boy looked, well a bit ugly, though the broken nose and the fact that most of his face was bruised tissue probably had something to do with that. He long raven hair that was done up into a low ponytail, which in the photo was resting on his right shoulder. In the photo, he was posing next to a statue.

"It's a recent photo," Makoto explained, "One of the student council members was good friends with the guy and took his photo."

"How do they know each other." The thought of a member of the student council knowing someone who looked like he had been hit in the face with a baseball bat was a jarring image.

"All third-years know each other, to some extent," Makoto answered vaguely, clearly enjoying the fact that her answer just raised further questions.

19/04/2018 - 16:30 - Cafe Leblanc - Arisato Minako

The Arisato twins were sitting down at one of the booths in the corner of the cafe, not really scaring away customers (Because there were none) and biding their time until the store closed. Sojiro appeared to be enjoying himself and was sipping a cup of coffee that he had apparently brewed just before they came in, causing the room to smell of fresh coffee.

It was then that they heard an old-timey ringtone, that sounded oddly like an old Nokia ringtone.

Sojiro pulled out an old flip-phone and answered it. "Sakura speaking." He said, his voice was gruff but there was an undercurrent of a businessman in there as well. The twins heard something from his phone "Oh, it's you." he said, his mouth was curling into something that could be described as a smile and his tone of voice lightened from old salaryman to 'caring father' "Don't worry, I'm closing up soon. An hour at the most." He said, his tone was reassuring and it warmed Minako's heart to see that Sojiro had someone he cared for, that meant that there was a child of the God of Coffee that was Sojiro. "Fine, fifteen minutes and don't call me old." He put away the phone and saw that both the twins were looking at him.

"Hot date tonight?" Minato asked without a hint of sarcasm.

"Shut up." Sojiro said, "I think both of you still have some dishes to clean."

"By the way, Sakura-san," Minako began "Am I allowed to get a job?"

"Of course," Sojiro responded, "Though on that note." He took a set of keys and threw them at the twins, Minato caught them easily "Nice catch, these are a set of spare keys for Leblanc so that I don't have to wait for both of you to come home before I close up, just be sure to lock up before you go to sleep and don't go out of the street in the evening, got it."

Those were surprisingly generous terms, most people don't even trust them with anything sharper than a crayon. Both the twins nodded.

"Where's that job anyway?" Sojiro was taking a sip from a cup of coffee

"Akihabara," Minako said

"Do you know any of the details of this job?" He asked, his eyes looked a little disappointed at the mention of the district.

"Yeah," Minako answered, pulling the pamphlet out of her blazer pocket. "Its here, I did a search on my phone and the position is still open."

"Smart girl," Sojiro said, "You should actually call them about the job opening, part-time jobs like that don't really need much in the way of qualifications, though your record will affect your chances of getting a job,"

Minako was sure that Sojiro was probably the closest she'd get to a father, her uncles and aunties only really saw the both of them as a nuisance, the black sheep of the family, but Sojiro was treating them right, well, still as a pain but he was warming to the two.

"Okay," Minako picked up her smartphone and quickly typed in the phone number for the job.

"Hello, Grey Cloud Cafe. How can I help you?" The voice on the other end spoke in heavily accented Japanese, she thinks that it might be an American accent.

"Hello, I was wondering if your part-time job offer was still open?"

"That one, yeah, it's still open, I guess your applying?"

"I wouldn't be calling otherwise," Minako said, her voice was humorous and she could hear the receptionist on the other side laughing.

"Okay, we need to pencil in your interview, how's tomorrow at 5 PM for you?" the voice said, what followed was a few sounds that would have obviously been the receptionist reaching around for something.

"Okay," Minako said, she'd be lying if she didn't say that she was checking the train routes all the way back home, it was safe to say that she knew the route pretty well, theoretically at least. She looked at Sojiro "I think that went well."

"You are aware that there's a long-standing set of rules about talking over the phone?" Sojiro said to her.

"Yes and don't worry, it was an American on the other end, chances are they wouldn't know about those rules," Minako said, waving the problem off.

"Well, they got employed, so chances are that they do." Sojiro said, "Kids these days..." he stage-whispered, making sure that the twins could hear him. He looked at his watch and then back to the twins, he took off his apron, storing it under the counter and then proceeded to leave, just stopping to say "I should go." on his way out.

The twins looked at each other and said at the same time "This year might not be so bad."

I couldn't really think of much, though I suppose I could chalk this chapter up to one of those days where nothing really happens.

In case you are wondering, there is a complex set of rules relating to talking on phones in Japan, a set of rules that I don't know about and I assume someone like Minako wouldn't be bothered about them.

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