"So the Agency will be suffering from burnout-Yes Atsushi?"
"Why don't I suffer from it as well? I did most of the legwork."
"Because fuck you that's why." Mori glares.
"I get in the newspaper? Cool!"
"In the fake newspaper, yes." Ranpo points out.
"Still, pretty awesome." Atsushi is unfazed.
"Kunikida says ora ora ora? Are you TRYING to get us sued?" Tachihara complains.
Mori shrugs. "He's not punching anything, so there's not much of a leg to stand on."
Atsushi cuts in. "I read about intellectual property a while back, but I'm still not sure if that's lawsuit-worthy. I'm familiar with American copyright law thanks to Shibusawa, but not Japanese copyright law." (Because he does say it and I just finished an online unit about copyright and technology. In America, the makers could be sued for that and lose.)
"Are you hung over?" The waitress chirps.
Yosano groans. "Yes."
"CUT! Why are you hung over?! You knew we were shooting the scene today!"
"Went drinking with Chuuya." She mumbles.
"That's just a bad idea all around." Dazai snorts. "His character may be a lightweight but he's definitely not."
Chuuya walks in, drinking from a bottle of wine. "You hung over, Yosano? I haven't even stopped drinking yet."
"Case in point." Dazai grins.
Lucy tries to pick up the metal box prop. It doesn't budge. "Uh, Odasaku?"
The man opens the box. It is full of bricks. On top is a sticky note with a chibi Fyodor drawn on it. "FYODOR!"
The Russian chuckles. "What, nobody's dead or injured. Why so mad?"
"Leave it." Mori mutters to Lucy and Odasaku. "This is him behaving."
"Danger is like the bitterness of coffee. For those ready for it, it is savory." The cafe owner says calmly, reading from his script. He puts down the script. "Who wrote that, it's a very true statement."
Poe waves. "I help out the scriptwriters sometimes." He smirks. "I am a POE-et, after all."
Elise starts laughing.
"I taught him that one." Dazai remarks.
Shots of each member's wide eyes. Kenji blinks.
"CUT! Kenji!"
"Sorry!"
"This bastard pulled the manager's thumbnail off?!" Atsushi glares at the extra.
"Not for real! Not for real!...please don't eat me…" The man babbles.
Dazai appears behind the man. "He doesn't eat people, he just maims them."
"Dazai, I haven't maimed anyone since I was 12."
"You've actually maiimed someone? That was a joke!"
Atsushi rubs the back of his neck. "Well, the tiger maimed someone. I didn't have control yet, and it was a full moon."
"Ah."
"So who'd you hire for the extras for the Park?"
"Some random thugs we found on the street."
"Because that one looks like the guy from a police report." Kunikida says, then freezes. "I'm calling the police."
Mori edges away from the thugs. "Please do."
Fyodor is standing on a building. His hat blows off. "My hat!"
"CUT!"
Katai sits up. His futon falls down, revealing that he's naked beneath it.
Atsushi claws at his eyes with tiger claws, blinding himself.
Kunikida falls on his butt and starts sputtering incoherently.
Dazai and Chuuya hide their faces in their coats.
Gin drops her phone.
Tachihara pulls his hood low so he doesn't have to see.
Mori drops his megaphone and gags. "Oh GOD!"
Elise picks up the megaphone. "CUT!" She yells.
"Can Katai really control machines like that?" Kyouka asks in awe.
"Only if he's in his futon." Mori says.
"And naked?"
"That was just the fact that he's a nudist."
"Oh hell." She groans.
"Why does his futon have a name?" Atsushi asks rhetorically.
Kunikida smirks. "Because it's his ~one true love~, of course."
Katai sits straight up. "Do not mock Yoshiko!"
"Aw, you named it Yoshiko? That's cute." Fyodor coos mockingly from offset.
"CUT! Kunikida, please!"
"Why do I have to swoon over Akutagawa? I'm GAY!"
"We wrote the character to be that way before you came out."
Higuchi groans.
"Oh, it's not that bad." Mori reassures her. "Just some stalking."
"That's...pretty bad, Mori." She rolls her eyes.
"You get to stay away from Fyodor."
"Done."
"Is this gonna be another one of those things where Mori pulls a trick on us?" Tachihara grumbles.
Atsushi shrugs. "At least it's not a Fyodor scene."
"True, true." Kyouka says.
"Oh my GOD it's GIN?!" Is the general outcry.
Atsushi snickers. "It's a long-haired wig, guys."
Gin pulls off the wig, revealing hair to her shoulders.
Higuchi is bright red in embarrassment.
Katai kneels in front of her. "My beauty, might you go out with me?" He's not wearing a shirt.
"I'm gay, sorry." She deadpans. "And I don't, as a rule, date nudists."
"Aww…" He pouts.
"Gin is Akutagawa's sister? WHAT?" Tanizaki gapes.
"They have the same hair and eyes." Naomi observes.
"And very different everything else!" Her brother retorts.
"They look more alike than we do." the younger Tanizaki points out.
"Damn, that's true."
