The three of them are walking in silence across an almost empty street, when suddenly—
"T-Tom-san, Varona, look!"
Tom almost jumps, quickly turning around, "Shizuo, what's—?"
Heiwajima Shizuo, the strongest man in Ikebukuro, clad in his bartender suit and sunglasses with a cigarette hanging between his lips, has literal sparkles of excitement in his eyes and is almost hopping on his feet as he shows Varona his phone.
Staring intently at the screen, Varona squints and says, "It seems to be an application, but I cannot comprehend its purpose at all."
"It's a game, look—"
He then angles it towards Tom, who sees an assortment of kittens, all stuck in a loop of playing with toys and balls of yarn. There's even a restaurant in here, as well as two bowls, filled to the brim with cat food.
"—Look at all the cats, Tom-san!"
"I am, Shizuo, I am." Tom scratches the back of his head as Shizuo takes his phone back, scrolling through the game.
"What sort of entertainment does Shizuo-senpai get from observing cats?"
"They're all having so much fun in my yard, I made all these cats so happy – they have names too, look at all the gifts they gave me!"
As Varona stands on her tiptoes, attempting to figure out how this game works, Tom blinks and realizes this is one of those moments he can't understand what goes on in Heiwajima Shizuo's mind.
But he can tell that Shizuo is ridiculously happy, and that alone is enough to make a large grin spill across his features, a chuckle escaping his lips, "I'm proud of you, Shizuo."
