It was fun to play dolls.
Sho hated playing dolls with her. He said that every time they played dolls together a little piece of his soul died. That was a lie, either your whole soul died or it didn't, and also Mob would have noticed if her little brother had died. She didn't know what was so bad about playing with dolls. It was fun. It was like you had a whole little world there for you to mess around with. Maybe this was why dad wanted to rule the world, because making your own little world was fun, though maybe instead of trying to take over the world dad could have maybe played dolls with her.
That was never going to happen.
Because dolls were for girls. She didn't understand why boys refused to play with dolls. They played with toy animals and toy soldiers and toy robots and toy superheroes but for some strange reason if the toy was shaped like a girl then they couldn't play with it. The rules for boys and girls made no sense at all sometimes. Like why girls were allowed to wear dresses but not boys, or why boys were allowed to have short hair but not girls, and stuff like that. The world had a lot of weird rules. Maybe dad would simplify them when he ruled the world.
Mob would never rule the world.
That was fine by her. There was so much that went into ruling the world, so much to learn, and so much bossing people around to do that it just didn't really seem worth it. She was happy just the way she was. Well she had been a little bit unhappy today, dad took only Sho to work with him, but she was happy too. She got to play with Minegishi!
"So now this one is going to go to the store I guess." Said Minegishi as they held a doll in their hands. They had no idea which character this doll was supposed to be, what her backstory was, or why they had even agreed to this in the first place…well, ok, they knew why they had agreed to this. Suzuki had turned them into his personal, on call, babysitter….and also the kid had grown on them….and also they had been neglecting the kid lately…
Not that this was their kid.
And not that playing with this kid was awakening long dead parental instincts or anything like that. No, they just felt bad for the kid. Suzuki was an asshole and, frankly, he had no business raising houseplants let alone human children. Mob's life sucked balls so maybe Minegishi could make it suck a little less. Then when Mob grew up she and Minegishi could do the same to Suzuki as Minegishi had done to their parents…and Suzuki was just as bad, if not worse, than Minegishi's parents had been.
This was for Mob. Poor kid.
"Wait, that's not the store, that's the mall." Said Mob. She used her powers to slide that box out of the way and bring over the appropriate box. She had brought all of her doll stuff to Minegishi's house. It hadn't been hard, they lived right next door, and also Mob's powers were listening better today. Maybe because she hadn't had any milk.
Well any of the milk that she had been drinking.
It wasn't stealing, now, because Minegishi had let her have some before. She would have gotten some herself but Minegishi said that if she told dad on them then they would get in trouble and Mob didn't want to get her friend in trouble. Also kids weren't supposed to drink that stuff anyway. That was for adults only and Mob was only nine. Not even nine and a half yet. If dad knew what she had been doing then she would have gotten into all kinds of trouble.
And she didn't want that at all.
"What's the difference?" asked Minegishi. They hadn't played dolls since they had been a kid. They really had nothing against dolls, there was some artistry to them, and they weren't against feminine things in general. What bothered them about this had nothing to do with them. Poor Mob. She said that her father had been showering her in dolls since World War Suzuki. That was what Minegishi was calling it. If they hadn't been so messed up, drinking after taking two Xanax a few hours before would do that to a person, they would have done…something.
Well they did do something.
They had set the kid floating down a river of vice and sin. Minegishi knew that kids were not supposed to drink, it was illegal, but they didn't much care. They hadn't been much older than Mob when they had started to dull the pain of living and all of that. At least the poor kid hadn't asked for more…though her eyes did go up to up to their bedside drawer. Mob had decided to surprise them when they had been sleeping.
Thank God her aura was so bright.
And thank God they had gone to sleep fully dressed. The talk about privacy had been short and to the point. Knock first unless you wanted to either see someone naked or get your ass kicked because you did not sneak up on someone in their sleep. Apparently nobody in her family knocked…and also she and her brother still bathed, slept, and changed clothes together. Not a lot of boundaries there.
And also Suzuki slept fully dressed and possibly also bathed in his suit….and Minegishi was inclined to believe Mob about that.
"This has the Starbucks were Mulan works." Said Mob as she turned the box around, put the old Starbucks cup in it, and then put her Mulan doll in the box. She liked the dolls that already had names and backstories because it was fun to make up new adventures about existing characters. When dad took over the world she hoped that he made, or rather nicely asked, the people at Disney make more movies about her favorite characters for her…or maybe just a great big crossover. That would have been so great.
"….why does she work at a Starbucks?" asked Minegishi as they picked up another doll. Mob shook her head and handed them another different doll.
"Because Merida got her a job here." Said Mob
"Who's Merida?" asked Minegishi. They knew Mulan, that had been a kick ass movie, but they had no idea who most of these princesses were…mostly because they did not share the nation of Japan's obsession with the Disney company. Even as a child they had liked grisly war movies and reenacting murders and executions…and also Sailor Moon but they had managed to put plenty of violence into that, too. Huh. Maybe they had some issues that were best worked out with a professional…nah, hanging out with and corrupting a nine year old. That was a much better use of their time. Maybe the love of this sweet little girl would heal their dark and damaged soul or whatever.
"The one in your left hand. She's a Scottish princess. She has a bow and arrow and accidentally turned her mom into a bear, well the witch did it but she only meant change her fate like not having to marry some guy she didn't even know, not turn her mom into a bear. Anyway she turned her mom into a bear because her mom was always telling her what to do and didn't care that she liked to fight and shoot her bow and arrow but then she and her mom got along and they defeated the evil bear and then they got along and the mom changed back into a person, but she was naked and that part was kind of funny, and then they got to be friends. Oh! And also the movie is called Brave." Said Mob. She was breathing kind of heavy towards the end. She had to explain it as fast as possible. Mob didn't much like that movie because nobody sang, they just played songs while stuff happened, and also she didn't kiss or even fall in love with any of the boys. If Mob had a bunch of boys that wanted to marry her she might have at least liked one of them. Sho liked that movie more than she did anyway, mostly because there was no kissing.
Boys were so weird sometimes.
Which made Mob think that Minegishi might have been a girl. They weren't good at playing with dolls but that was because they were a whole eleven years older than she was. They might have been out of practice. They weren't throwing the dolls around or making them fight or anything like that. Mob wasn't going to ask again, though, because Minegishi said that it was none of her business unless she was asking them on a date. She didn't like them like that. They were just friends…and also they were a lot older than she was. Mob wasn't going to ask again. She hadn't been thinking when she asked. Two capfuls was too much.
It was better when it was spread out in a bottle of milk.
"Ok….but why did she get Mulan a job at Starbucks?" asked Minegishi
"Because they're friends." Said Mob
"But one of them lives in Scotland and the other one lives in ancient China. How did they even meet? They live on opposite sides of the world…and also in different time periods." Said Minegishi
"Yes, but not now in this game. Now in this game they live in Japan and Mulan ran out of money after the war was over so her friend Merida got her a job at the Starbucks at the mall." Said Mob
"Uh-huh. Why doesn't Mulan just work on her family's farm? They seemed to be doing pretty well for themselves." asked Minegishi
"Because she married Shang but then they ran out of money because there was no more war and then Shang lost all of the money they had saved up in the economic downturn so they separated and Mulan went to be roommates in Tokyo with her friends Ariel and Merida and now she worlds at Starbucks." Said Mob
"Makes as much sense as anything else I suppose." Said Minegishi with a shrug.
"It does." Said Mob. She was glad that Minegishi agreed with her. Sho just said that her backstories were dumb. Minegishi was probably a girl, then, if they agreed with Mob that her game made lots of sense.
"Though how they can afford an apartment in Tokyo on three Starbucks worker salaries is beyond me." Said Minegishi
"Ariel doesn't work at Starbucks. She sells human stuff at the human stuff store. She used to live in the castle but then she ran away from Prince Eric and their Daughter, Melody, and now she lives in the city with her friends." Said Mob
"The mermaid from the Little Mermaid has a Daughter? Is that cannon?" asked Minegishi. They had the laserdisc of that movie….God they were getting old…and wasn't she, like, sixteen in that? And also there was the horror of the whole 'reproducing like a human' thing when mermaids so clearly came from eggs…but of course Mob hadn't thought too much about the horror of the ending of the Little Mermaid.
"Yes. In the second movie she had a Daughter named Melody. It was an ok movie." Said Mob
"How many of these movies did they make?" asked Minegishi. Well they were now, officially, old. Twenty five. They had might as well been dead. They needed to give up now and move into an old folk's home for the remainder of their life. Yup, no other choice.
"Three movies and a TV show." Said Mob. Mermaids were ok. Just ok. She still liked Frozen best, not as much as she had when she was little but she still liked it best. She and mom used to watch together before she left.
"So this is what Suzuki Shigeko does with her time." Said Minegishi
"Yes. Also sometimes I help dad with work stuff but also I watch a lot of TV and play and stuff. Dad lets me watch as much TV as I want. It's nice. I'm sorry that you have to do so much work and stuff…but at least we get to play now." Said Mob
"That we do…if you'll let me play." Said Minegishi
"I am letting you play. You're Merida and Mulan. I'll be Ariel…oh and also Belle. She lives in an apartment with Aurora and Cinderella. Belle works at a book store and Cinderella works at a clothes store but Aurora doesn't work because she has settlement money from what happened with the witch and the spinning wheel." Said Mob
"Settlement money?" asked Minegishi with a laugh. Maybe they needed to start playing dolls with Mob more often. This was starting to get interesting.
"Yes. Remember, when I was wearing my Aurora dress you said that her family could have gotten settlement money from what happened with the spinning wheel and the witch so I asked my dad what that was and he said that when something bad happened to you or a member of your family then your lawyer went to argue with someone else's lawyer and whoever's lawyer argued the best got to keep most of the money. So I put that in Aurora's backstory." Said Mob
"Ok….but if she has all of this money then why does she have two roommates?" asked Minegishi
"Because friends should live together. Cinderella had to live somewhere when she left the prince so she stayed in Aurora's castle but then Bella had to leave too and they decided to live in the city. They all live in this building because Elsa and Anna own it and they wanted to build a place where they could hang out with all of their friends and also Anna had to leave Arendelle because she and Kristoff aren't together anymore and Elsa went with her even though she didn't want to and she misses her kingdom and being the queen but she had to because that's what big sister's do. They do everything for their little brothers and sisters even if it makes them sad or they don't want to." Said Mob
"Uh-huh…." Said Minegishi. Well they were certainly sensing a theme here. They wondered if there was a therapist on staff to help Mob with the inevitable commitment issues she would end up struggling with in her adult life as a direct result of nobody helping her deal with her parents' divorce.
"Yes. That's why they all live together. Oh! And also Princess Jasmine lives with Tiana, she's the one from the frog movie, and also Jane from the Tarzan movie too because they're all friends and needed places to live." Said Mob
"Because they all broke up with their princes?" asked Minegishi
"Tarzan and Aladdin weren't princes but yes." said Mob. She really needed to show Minegishi more movies. They had no idea about any of the stuff that mattered. Maybe they were a boy, then, because even as an adult they should have known this stuff. Some of those movies were so old that they had come out before she and Sho were even born.
"So everyone breaks up in this game? And then they live with their best friends in some kind of 'no boys allowed' apartment paradise?" asked Minegishi
"Yes. There aren't any boys at all in this. Boys are messy and loud and stuff. Well there are boys allowed when Sho plays but he hates playing so this is a no boys allowed game...I mean no boys in the game. If a boy wanted to come and play with us then he could." Said Mob. She didn't want to exclude Minegishi in case they were a boy after all. That would have been mean. Also she didn't want to paint herself into a corner if Sho suddenly decided to show up….but the odds of that were lower even than the odds of Minegishi leaving the room so Mob could borrow some more of that Vodka stuff from the bottle in their drawer. She didn't really need it, though, since she was one hundred percent happy right now. It was nice to have someone who wanted to play with her.
"That's still not enough for an apartment in Tokyo, you know, living with three roommates and everyone works for minimum wage at the mall." Said Minegishi. They never professed to being a good person. Not that they were a bad person, either, they were just…poking holes in the world that a nine year old girl with obvious issues had created for her dolls.
"Is Tokyo really expensive?" asked Mob
"It's one of the most expensive cities in the world." Said Minegishi
"Oh. I didn't know that. Dad never talks about money. He just gives me money when I need it." Said Mob
"You're nine. What do you even need money for?" asked Minegishi
"If I want to go to do fun stuff with Sho. Like how we went to the arcade the other day…oh! And also there's a Disney Land near here and we're going to go. Do you want to-" said Mob
"Pass." Said Minegishi. They didn't even need to think. A hot day, it was getting to be summer, the massive crowds, and having to spend the day with Suzuki Jr.? Hell no. They'd rather go on one of Suzuki's pointless 'prove your loyalty' missions than deal with that headache. They liked the kid but up to a point and that point was Tokyo Disney Land.
"But it's fun-" said Mob. It would have been so fun to have Minegishi go with them. That was what friends did, they invited you to go places, and then you went places and had a lot of fun…though her idea of fun might have been different than Minegishi's.
"I said pass. I don't like crowds, I don't like the heat, and I'm usually pretty busy." Said Minegishi. They cared about the kid and all but there were limits.
"With work stuff that I can't know about until I'm ten?" asked Mob. There was stuff about Claw that she didn't know. There was stuff that she was too young to know, stuff that was on a need to know basis, and stuff that dad said that she would never have to know about because she was a girl. She was tired of people telling her what she did and did not need to know. It was so…annoying…and as soon as the thought hits her, the thought and the annoyed feeling, she reaches for her milk bottle even though it's just plain milk today. She wasn't getting at that drawer today…another annoyed thought. Too many annoyed thoughts in one day. She tries to be happy. Someone's playing with her. Nobody ever plays with her except for Sho and unless she begs him for a whole day. She should be happy. She is happy.
"With personal stuff that you can't know about until you're ten." Said Minegishi. Not that they had any intention of telling Mob about any of this when she was ten. Maybe when she was a teenager or something. Ten year olds did not need to know about the things that they got up to.
"Oh…ok." Said Mob. She couldn't wait until she was ten. Then she could know all the stuff that she was too young to know now. She didn't know why one year would make such a difference but adults were weird like that.
"But you have fun at Disney Land. Say hi to Mickey Mouse for me. Get lots of autographs. Be sure to lose your brother somewhere in the crowd and make yourself an only child." Said Minegishi
"Um…I'll have fun and say hi to Mickey, even though he's not real but playing pretend is still fun, and I'll get a new autograph book just to fill up for you, but I won't lose Sho because I love him so much. Even if he won't play dolls with me unless I beg him all day." Said Mob
"You sure you don't want to lose your brother and live that sweet, sweet, only child lifestyle?" asked Minegishi
"No. I love Sho. Even if he can be mean sometimes I love him." said Mob. The only thing worse than the way she lived now was if she had to be all alone. She was so happy that mom and dad had given her a little brother, a best friend, because otherwise she would have been so lonely all these years…and she missed Sho so much even though she knew that he was coming back…and she wished that she had been born a boy so she could have gone with….and she reaches for her milk again even though she knows that it would give her the tired but happy-ish feeling because it's just milk.
"Even if he is an annoying little boy?" asked Minegishi
"All boys are annoying." Said Mob. She wished that she hadn't said that. If Minegishi was a boy then she would have hurt their feelings….but if they were a girl they would have agreed with her…and Mob wondered why it mattered so much to her. Maybe because her whole life had been divided up into boy stuff and girl stuff. She had never met anyone who just…was…before. Also she had never met anyone who kept whether or not they were a boy or a girl a secret before. That was smart, though, because if you kept it a secret then you could do whatever you wanted and nobody could tell you that you were doing the wrong thing because they wouldn't know which you were for sure, a boy or a girl.
Mob sensed something in the energy around her.
For a moment she thinks that the aura she's feeling is Minegishi's. She wondered, worried, that she had said something mean and wrong and they wouldn't want to play with her anymore and then she would be all alone at home and she would be so lonely and-
She didn't have much time to wonder.
"Are we really?" Mob threw up a barrier as fast as she could. That was…her heart was pounding. How could someone DO that? Just APPEAR like that! It was….it was rude, actually, very rude. Because you were supposed to knock before coming into someone's bedroom unless you wanted to see them naked or get beat up.
And this man's eyes were closed so….
Mob did not want to beat him up even if he was being super rude.
"Calm down, Mob, I know this asshole. His name's Shimazaki. He's a teleporter." Said Minegishi. They didn't even bother to stand up. There was no point. They didn't want him there, they didn't want him anywhere, hence why they were spending their afternoon playing the game of divorced princesses.
"So I've been upgraded from annoying to asshole?" said Shimazaki. Two auras, one very loud, the other Minegishi's. Something plastic under his feet. A bed in the corner, or at least it was shaped like one. It smelled like milk, vodka, and potting soil in there. Also the midget with the loud aura was staring at him.
"No, you're an annoying asshole. It's a lateral move." Said Minegishi. Mob was looking at Shimazaki like she was afraid of him….which made no sense because she was second only to her father. She could have taken Shimazaki down with her eyes closed and not even broken a sweat.
"Well then I am so sorry to break up whatever this was. Truly I am, Toshi, truly I am." Said Shimazaki. He walked over to the bed and sat down. He had come partially to be with Minegishi and also partially to figure out whose aura this was. No matter where in the city he was he could hear that aura…and apparently it belonged to a midget. Huh.
"You know never to call me-" said Minegishi
"Minegishi doesn't like to be called Toshi…and also you stepped on our game…so you should say sorry…because that was rude." Said Mob. She tried to sound like dad then. She didn't know if she did but…but that was so rude! Even Sho wasn't usually that rude but he got a pass anyway because he was her little brother. This man probably worked for dad which meant that, maybe, it was ok to talk to him like this even if he was an adult.
"You're seriously going to talk to me like that? I mean you seem pretty powerful, for a midget, but I'm-" said Shimazaki. In Claw you had to prove your strength so, yes, starting fights with random espers was fine.
"That's not a midget, that's a nine year old girl. She's supposed to be that short. I have to ask, though, are you meant to be so stupid or is this something that you're been working hard to cultivate within yourself, Ryou?" asked Minegishi dangerously. Nope. He did not get to mess with the kid. Not while Minegishi was there. The kid had enough shit going on in her life without having this asshole pick fights with her.
"Sorry, I just assumed someone with an aura so loud must have been an adult. My mistake. I assume that this is the Awakened Child then?" asked Shimazaki. He was not afraid. So the kid managed to take down the entire Eighth Division. Whatever, those idiots were a bigger joke than the Seventh Division. There was no way that some kid could take him.
"That's my brother. People call him the Awakened Child and they call me the Prodigy. I prefer Mob, though, and that's what I would like to be called. Also Minegishi would like to be called by their family name. Not Toshiki or Toshi. You should always call people what they want to be called." Said Mob. She sounded more like dad, there, and that was good. No matter what dad said people listened to him. That must have been a good feeling, having people listen to you all the time no matter what you said.
"What the hell kind of name is Mob?" asked Shimazaki
"That's what she wants to be called. If you have a problem then take it up with Suzuki himself." Said Minegishi. Wow. The kid went to bat for them. That was a lot considering how much she hated conflict. Wow.
"I've been guarding him for days. There's no way I'm asking him anything." Said Shimazaki
"You've been guarding my dad? Why? Is something wrong?" asked Mob. Oh no. Sho was with dad. If what was happening was so bad that dad needed someone to guard him…she didn't know what she was supposed to do. She could…she didn't know.
She took a drink of milk…and was once again disappointed.
"Some of the usual shit…wait….dad? As in your father? As in he made you? As in you're his actual kid? As in someone actually wanted to-" said Shimazaki
"Yes. He's my dad. Thank you for keeping him safe. I guess that because you kept him safe I can forgive you for being rude…and still being rude….because it's rude to talk to you with your eyes closed." Said Mob
"You're really his kid?" asked Shimazaki
"Yes." said Mob. She had nodded, first, but then she remembered that his eyes were still closed even though there was no reason for them to be closed. Sho did that sometimes too. He did it just to be annoying. Boys were so annoying even when they were all grown up. It was a wonder that dad came out so normal…aside from how mean he could be sometimes.
"And you have no idea why people might be after your old man?" asked Shimazaki. Oh this was rich. So Suzuki had a little heiress all tucked away. He knew that the boy was his son but he had no idea what Suzuki had a Daughter too. He wasn't sure what he was supposed to do with this information, she was only nine and he was a lot of things but not any of that, so the only things left to do was figure her out. She had a two colored aura like Suzuki…and she sounded like him too…and he was an idiot. Well nothing to do now but try and figure the mysterious Miss Suzuki out.
"No idea." Said Mob. Maybe because he was so powerful. He did say, before, that people tried to fight him because of how powerful he was…so that was maybe it. She didn't know. She didn't want to have to think about this and worry….but Sho was ok. Dad may not have liked him all that much but he still wouldn't let anything bad happen to him.
"And you also have no idea why my eyes are closed?" asked Shimazaki
"Don't." said Minegishi. They knew where this was going. If he thought that picking on a kid was making him any more attractive then he was sadly mistaken. He was only shooting himself in the head. Minegishi would have been all for it, after they finished the game of divorced princesses of course, but now…not so much. No matter the age boys were annoying idiots.
"I don't know why your eyes are closed, no." said Mob. She got the feeling that this was something that she should know…but she didn't know a lot of things. She didn't even know the names of most of the people who worked for dad. She felt so dumb right then….
Minegishi reached over and patted them on the head even though they weren't the sort of friends who did stuff like that.
"He was born without eyes. He uses his powers to get around so it seems like he can see but he can't. He's planning on opening his eyes and freaking you out, it's ok to be freaked out it freaked me out the first time too, and then he's going to laugh at you. Well he thought that he was going to, anyway, but now he's going to get the hell out of my house because, like you said, he was being incredibly rude." Said Minegishi. This was quite enough. It was one thing to mess with another adult but a kid. Nope. No way. Not happening.
"Oh come on. I thought that we could-" said Shimazaki
"Are you drunk, high, or just stupid? What about you is supposed to be attractive right now? You're sitting there, on my bed by the way, picking on a kid. Not just any kid but the boss' kid. Get out of my house if you're going to act like that. I don't have the mental space for your stupidity right now." Said Minegishi. There was a moment of silence. Minegishi let their aura show just how serious they were. They hadn't been lying about not having enough headspace for this. God, he was so annoying. He had his good points but he was so arrogant and annoying he could even put Suzuki to shame.
They needed a good, stiff, drink.
"Fine." Said Shimazaki. He knew when to bow out. He'd be back later partially for Minegishi, they could be so moody sometimes but they always came around, and partially to figure out as much as he could about this kid who's aura looked just like an adult's.
"Sorry about him. He's not usually such an asshole…well he is but never like that. So where were we?" asked Minegishi as they straightened up the boxes that made up the doll mall.
"I'm sorry that I was so rude to your friend-" said Mob. She had been rude, hadn't she? She should have been nicer even if the other person was being rude. She was always supposed to be nice and sweet just like mom had said. If mom could have seen her now she would have been so upset….but that man had started it…and he should have been nicer…but two wrongs did not make a right…but that was still Minegishi's friend.
"He's not my friend. Now, where were we?" Said Minegishi as they handed Mob some of the dolls. Mob was still looking at them, lots of questions in her eyes, questions that Minegishi knew for a fact that Mob was way too young to have answered for her.
"But he was acting very familiar with you, kind of like you were friends." Said Mob
"Mob…what Shimazaki Ryou is to me, besides a headache and then some, is something that you are not old enough to know about. Ok? This is one of those tell you later things. Now where were we?" asked Minegishi
"When I'm ten?" asked Mob
"Yes, yes, when you're ten. Now where were we?" asked Minegishi. The plants on their windowsill began to wilt…their doing. They did not deal well with stress at all. They could feel another miserable stress headache coming on. This was not how they had wanted to spend what little free time they had. They wanted to play dolls, not twenty questions.
"Um….we were at the part where Mulan was at work and then Pocahontas was going to come in because she left John Smith….and are you ok? Your aura is being weird." Said Mob
"I'm fine, just a headache, I just need a drink." Said Minegishi. Well they had already started the kid down the river of sin so why not? They turned around and got a bottle of something, it didn't matter what it was all good, out from their drawer. They could feel Mob's eyes and aura on them.
"Can I have some?" asked Mob. She hoped that it hadn't been a one time thing. She also sort of had a headache….sort of. Also it was polite to share.
"For the love of….fine. One capful. Just one and only one. I'm not trying to ruin your life here." Said Minegishi as they poured Mob a capful before taking a swig directly from the bottle. Mob, apparently, didn't care about germs as she drank down her own capful. She handed Minegishi back the cap and then picked up one of her dolls. She started to play with it's hair.
"Thank you." Said Mob. She felt sort of bad, now, because of all of those times she had snuck into Minegishi's house to borrow a little for her milk. People said that they were going to borrow food all the time, like borrowing a cup of sugar or something, but now it occurred to Mob that unless you were planning on giving it back then it wasn't really borrowing…and also maybe being shared with once didn't mean being shared with forever…and maybe she had been doing something bad.
But it was good.
It tasted like burning and made her feel almost like she was going to throw up but it made her less mad, less sad, and made her powers less big and scary. So it was good…but she was bad for taking all of that without asking. Especially from her friend. She and Sho never asked about sharing food and drink but she and Sho were brother and sister so the rules might have been different…
She passed all the dolls to Minegishi
"Here. You can plan out the game." Said Mob. It was the least that she could do after coming into their house when they weren't home and borrowing out of the bottles without asking. She wished that she could have done more but she couldn't think of anything more that she could have done…and also her brain was getting kind of foggy again….
"That's really nice of you but I'm liking this game of divorced princesses. Now come on, let's get on with it." Said Minegishi. She was a nice kid, nicer than they had been as a kid anyway, and they hoped that she never lost her niceness…but she would. When she grew up. The world had a way of taking the niceness out of everything it touched…
But hey, at least they were having a nice time sitting there playing the game of divorced princesses.