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Crossing the borders illegally legal
In which you follow the slow yet melancholic lifestyle of YN with a hint of joy while also defying the goverments laws in hopes of the betterment of solving a silly case of missing people.
Twenty-nine.
Twenty-eight.
Counting back the steps to get home.
It gets a little dull, YN concludes while walking home. She knows that people around her are getting married and stuff, it doesn't bother her.
It shouldn’t.
She’s just a busy woman with work, that’s accomplishing enough.
Two.
One.
Getting a mini apartment might have been the best thing she’s done since she yelled back at her mother, though it does get lonely.
Luckily she has Sherman and her favorite series to watch on her laptop, TV is overrated.
It’s nice to watch a slice-of-life show, keeps her sane.
YN is pretty sure she’s seen this at least more than four times, but something about it makes it comforting.
Something about people coming together and genuinely caring about each other has her bubbly every time she watches it.
It's nice.
Sherman is a concerning animal though, he’s now what looks like reading a book— she would be more concerned but she decides to sleep it off evaluating her day to drift into sleep.
Another day will begin.
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It's a horrible one.
She doesn't know when it started but she feels so small.
So alone.
The best way to describe the feeling is if you imagine your chest.
Then imagine your childhood, when you were happy.
Then your life now, how you wish to hold yourself and hug them senselessly telling them they’ll be okay in their trying times as they tremble in your arms unsure of how to react.
That might have been a little dramatic, but YN writes down the thought in her little notepad.
Maybe she could write a novel one day she thinks.
Talk about her life experiences and—
The shower water turns lukewarm.
She goes to tie her hair in the mirror when she notices.
She has already covered it with newspaper.
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Once every other month YN calls her mom to check in.
Well, they both reluctantly check on each other.
Her sister was always the more promising one, always seemed like she was always a step ahead.
“Just wanted to say hi that's all” She twirls a strand of stray hair while speaking.
“Well, things have been okay at home, nothing much has changed. Your sister is entering an international competition this weekend for the ballet” Her mother says proudly, something she’s yet to hear directed at her.
Everything YN would try at and fail.
She excelled in.
She just hums in reply, not saying much as she continues.
“Oh that's great”
“It is, I wish you were more athletic as a kid, you always stayed in your room all day and not help at all around”
As a moment passes, her chest becomes stiff, and suddenly the glum feeling she was getting creeps over her shoulder.
She hangs up and lays in bed, Sherman on her side.
“Well I'm going to go now, I'm tired”
“Alright, good night”
He’s warm.
She just holds him and stares at the ceiling closing her eyes.
Her chest feels tight.
She’s twenty-nine for god sake, small stuff shouldn't have this much of an effect on her anymore considering how small the issues were.
But why was she still bothered?
-
To work with people, she needs to be people.
“You know about surfing slang?!” Oh, that might have been the wrong slang.
“Wait, you're telling me you would work out on the weekends?” Jermain exclaims, dropping whatever he was doing to give YN his full attention.
“Carrying boxes builds extra muscle, so I can't say no to a free workout session, brah,” YN says, trying to add some sports slang and expression.
Jermain reaches into his back pocket and starts digging. Man, do male pants have too much space in them because he has two mini notebooks and a pocket knife? Was this guy some type of criminal?
Finally, after digging in his ass for about two minutes, he pulls out his smartphone “My dad owns this entire land of this beach and there are these free surfing classes they have. To be honest I didn't know anyone in the office would be interested in this so I just…Anyways I’ll go tell the boss about this!”
The employees are somewhat bearable, YN finds ways to communicate with Jermain when Reigen gave her a list of things to say that relate to football with work.
This increases productivity by 0.09 percent, she can now get back to her weekend job.
She was actually enjoying work before her boss interrupted “YN to the office”
-
Another lecture was given, at least it was a positive one.
Or not.
“You should put on some makeup, I mean just saying the eye bags are growing and the company's image and stuff"
"Nothing as for now, there have been some improvements to the new workers, good job. Kelsey's positive vibe might be rubbing off on them"
YN hates the existence of Men.
“I mean I don't really have the time or money to do it. But I’ll keep that in mind” She won't "Anything else?"
Yeah, like Kelsey - oh yes Kelsey, her nails and hair are always perfect. Even when it was messy she looked straight out of a modeling magazine that sells shampoo for curly hair.
She wishes she could be like that.
Just this time maybe, YN will take this obviously rude advice.
-
While fixing the makeup she sat looking at the mirror.
More foundation to cover her eye bags.
More blush for her pale face.
It wasn't enough.
She probably needs more eyeliner there—no that looks bad.
But what if she—
She slams the makeup down, the eyeliner that she overdid just now - was running down her face.
A realization set in, well it's not really a realization if you knew about it before.
Why bother?
She thinks of what happened in high school.
YN covers the mirror again.
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'Children coming back with strange injuries Tonkatsu Prefecture’ and 'Do not let your pet off of their leach, do so and it will be your last'
These are a couple of the many articles that have been becoming a sensation recently, where teens who had seemingly misbehaved and run into the forest — come out with either injury or come back a completely new person.
Most of the netizens just commented on how 'Nature scared the kids fr', later on, it came out that teenagers who engaged in activities like drinking would enter. One particular day a known group of four teenagers were venturing late at night but only three came out the next, none of them seemed to really remember their friend who drowned.
Well, no one she knows lives in that town anyway.
Seems like townsfolk mania, towns like that are often closed-minded and blame everything on some type of devil or teenager.
It was pretty common for pets to go missing and teens to cause havoc but not at the amount that was happening to that town in particular.
But it seems that there was a specific pattern for all of this, like the kidnapper or influencer.
Strange.
Her shoes are all soggy from the rain, she shouldn't have washed her shoes yesterday.
Ah, this is great.
She kneels to grab the shoes and holds them close to her. It must have felt tired of her, being washed feeling cleaner than to be dirtied again - YN emphasizes with this object, she might be crazy.
She just wants it to be gone.
-
She can feel all her bones coming back and they’re craving motion. It was like her life was stagnant, nothing changing, unmoving.
Nothing.
Thinking about when she was a kid, she wanted to be an astronomer discovering new planets and helping people.
That dream crashed and burnt the moment she realized she needed to be great at math, her mother explicitly saying she wouldn’t be paying for her college fees because astronomy was a pricey major.
Working a desk job at a company managing people shouldn’t be all that bad right?
She should be grateful for this.
Being almost thirty with just a business diploma.
She amounted to nothing.
Pity.
Closing her laptop she says goodbye to everyone, sliding to Kelsey’s desk before she leaves “Kels, want to grab dinner? I think I have enough money for the week to try that new western place”
“Oh dang, I would love to but..” YN knows this, she knows this “Your husband made dinner?”
“Yes! And the kids are starting school soon so I have to be home more, we can do it next time if you want to"
It's probably what she felt for her, she doesn't want that “No, no it's fine Kelsey. Uh, I’ll go but some ice cream then”
"I don't mind you know, I can just tell him to save some for me, you've got to be starving-"
Twenty-eight-
"It's fine" YN doesn't elaborate and walks.
Twenty-nine.
It's the same.
YN stops in her tracks, and she finds a wall to lean on.
Reminding herself that people were starving and dying and she was some basic girl in some type of midlife crisis, she needed to set her mind straight.
The train station, oh right.
Todays Thursday.
Her seminar, that's right.
Honestly, she’s too tired to care.
“Sorry I’m late, I completely forgot about today,” She says as she rushes through the door, Reigen seems to be arranging some documents on the table before he ruffles them out of the way.
Wiping his forehead he replies “No worries! Mobs actually also running late, has some type of thing with his friends today, and actually, let me text him to have the day off”
“Oh, then will we just do it?”
“I was about to cancel, but let's do it anyways pupil” He throws a plastic chair at YN, which misses and smacks her right in the face - it goes unnoticed by Reigen as he scrambles to the room.
Reigen comes back from the other room with his laptop and scratches his head looking a little stressed while holding his laptop “There might be a problem”
He walks back to his desk and sighs nervously “So you've been coming here quite often- which isn't bad, it's great because we finished the program but the problem is…..we finished the program”
“I see” They both sat there quietly for a moment before YN broke the silence by clapping her hands and gathering her things “I guess I should get going, on oh” She handed him an envelope “Can't forget your fees"
He accepts them but stops her as she makes her way out falling in the process from the water leaking from the air-conditioning that he forgot to put a bucket, YN puts out her arms to try to catch him but he plays it off by resting his head on his hand and posses?
They both just look at each other before YN swears she hears a whisp from her shoulder saying 'real smooth man'
"Do you remember what I told you last time we met?"
"Slap an employee if needed and take up sponsorships but make sure I have all the rights to the company?" She says with a monotone tone.
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Reigen ignores her voice and twirls his hand "Yes but the other thing"
"Gossip and brunch?" YN replies puzzled, tilting her head to the side.
"Exactly!" His eyes sparkled "When I tell you I got gossip, I mean it"
"You think of me as lowly, I'm obviously gossiping about that other exorcist down the street. Even Mob says that there wasn't an ounce of spiritual energy and was scamming them"
Reigen ends up ordering some fries from down the street and they end up eating in the office from the lack of chairs.
"I hope this isn't about your customers" YN gapes at him crossing her arms while eating.
"Isn't that what you do-"
"Tut-tut friend, tut-tut. I solve the problems, not create more. This guy purposefully massaged my back in all the wrong areas, he was really going for my thigh. Apparently, the other ladies that went there had similar experiences"
"Reigen that might be a different type of problem, we might need to consult the police on this one"
"And your point is?"
He gasps, scandalized "You don't think he-"
"He just might, why do think people left the one-star review plus police report on the website review" Reigen mumbles something under his breath realizing some stuff.
"Well other than the strange massage, that I already anonymously exorcised" YN just stares at him "Well Mob did...But never mind that, I found out about a thing that might be my big hit"
"The one with missing cats," He says casually while he plays with his fries and tomato sauce drawing a penis.
YN's eyes widen "You can't be talking about the one at..."
"Tonkatsu prefecture"
YN almost spits out her drink "The manic town case with missing cats?"
"Wait mobs coming?" She says stunned, Reigen brushes her off and continues "Duh, as I was saying"
She quickly thinks about something "Doesn't your mom live nearby?"
"Yeah...I don't really talk to her anymore" He hesitates "She lives right outside of the border so she should be fine but that doesn't stop gossip from spreading across the small town. I'm leaving tomorrow actually, getting that cheap train fare and parent discount since Mob is coming-"
"No way his parents are okay with this"
"Surprisingly yes" YN contemplates calling CPS "And the lady who needs our service bought us an extra ticket on accident, so I was thinking...." Reigen draws more penises with the fry that has gone cold "If you wanted to tag along, just-saying-since-y'know-for-fun-and-stuff..."
YN smiles fondly and thinks Reigen is charming "I would.." She says then stops, her boss is making her do more things, what would he say about this? She could get fired and it all would be over.
She doesn't know what-
Reigen interrupts "You don't have to come if you don't want to, I just don't want to waste the ticket"
"I would..really, just that-"
"And how did you even come to that intuition?"
"Your work" He says placing his hand on his chin "I say to let your new employees handle themselves for one day, if they can't then they should get fired"
"I don't think how that works" If only it could be that easy "I would get fired"
"Not if you tell your boss that they should at least try to handle themselves for a day, he probably will agree since its part of the training manual"
"My gut obviously darling"
"My gut usually tells me I'm constipated but go on"
"You should see a doctor about it but don't you think it's pretty odd for a bunch of animals, especially cats disappearing, a list of missing people, and children cases"
"A doctor is too expensive, I rather explode. Even if you feel suspicious how are you even going to get past the border? They've got it on lockdown" She states nonchalantly.
"True but exploding doesn't sound fun, try Chinese medicine or something before it gets worse. That's right but you forgot one thing"
"I'll think about it and what thing?"
"I'm Reigen Arataka" He shoots up to his feet, then rummages through his first aid kit and hands her the medicine, which she gladly accepts.
YN grows fonder every second, every ounce of possible bullshit made her grow fonder. A feeling that she wants to repress, though she can't hide from how he glows "That sounds fun"
"And?" She questions doubtfully.
"You underestimate me"
"I think I overestimate you"
"Sure you do" He chides "But seriously I have a plan"
"So.." He twiddles his fingers on the side of his pants nervously, "Do you want to join us?" He asks again, even though it really isn't a question.
She blinks, genuinely taken aback by the request. So she sits a little straighter "I'll try"
She meant it, she really will.
-
YN somehow managed to convince her boss to give her some time off in the middle of June, thank god she has four December holidays stockpiled.
They all sit on the train, Mob sitting next to YN before he stares at her hands.
Confused, she asked him "Is there something wrong?"
Mob glanced at her, his face calm but curious "Could I..hold your hand?"
Odd request.
But she agreed, she did recently cut her nails (she did an amazing job at getting the edges to be perfect)
Mob looks at Reigen and then back at YN “Huh, I never sensed this before”
Reigen, not missing a beat snorts “Her beefy hands?”
YN just stars at him and nods her head back at Mob “I’ll take that as a compliment, I do lift boxes” she chuckles, damn her hands must be rough.
Mob holds her hands with a glimmer “Have you ever felt a connection to the ghost?”
“Not really no? Why do you ask?”
“It's just that" Mob grips hovers over her hand "I think feel a hint of psychic abilities within you”
“What?! No way, not even me- I mean” Reigen coughs in his sleeve “What does this mean?”
Spirits?
“Well, if Mrs.YN would allow me to awaken them, she could maybe see spirits”
What the hell?
Mob gently places his hands out for YN to grab, he whispers a little "strong rough hands" under his breath in amazement, YN has to control her giggles.
She dosent think for a minute before replying “Hell yeah”
“Heads up, you might be able to see the annoying green orb that gives me brain damage every week” Reigen says, Mob nods along.
“Green orb?”
“He means dimple, he’s not too bad once you know him.” He suddenly swats his ear "Shut the hell up, sheesh. Mob do your thing"
"Tell me if you feel anything" Mob says softly, YN nodded, the only thing she could focus now was his hands warming in her own— almost like his hands were a heat warmer.
The flowers grow in her eyes, and the feeling of Mob's gentle hands suddenly feel like there's a barrier between them.
Her pupils dilate a little when Mob lets go of the colors around her.
A hue of blue, she can actually see a blob of green in front of her whose picking its nose.
YN thinks she sees Mob scold the blob saying 'Dimple, don't pick your nose in front of people who can see you, it's rude'
Trying to play it cool, YN excuses herself to the toilet which earns a glance of concern from the two boys...and blob.
Once inside, she splashed cold water on her face, gripping the sink tightly.
She can actually…See them…
She walks back to her seat “You good?” Reigen questions.
She has never felt so elevated in my life.
Reigen could easily tell by the way her lips crinkled she was trying not to explode, she kept looking around the train to see if she could see more spirits (there were none other than dimple).
Dimple on the other hand was swirling around her head.
Mob even told Dimple to stop but YN said it was alright, taking in the wonder of the spirit.
Until she felt the urge to vomit.
The rest of the trip was spent in silence.
-
If only the silence could last.
"What the actual fuck do you mean the place is on lockdown and you conveniently decided to leave that part out" YN thinks she might pop a blood vessel.
Reigen huffs, turning to face the green blob "Dimple I told you this was meant to be a secret"
She turns to him unconvinced "How exactly do you have it covered dear 'Taka, do tell" Her voice filled with frustration at the sheer absurdity of the situation
Dimple just shrugs unapologetically "What do you expect? Would you rather have her freak out here or in front of the officers"
"Officers? Yup alright" YN mutters, her blood pressure sure to spike "Yup alright, keep calm YN. I just need to get another ticket and leave-"
"Relax I've got it all covered" Reigen interrupts smoothly.
"So I'm going to jail for trespassing, child endangerment, and forgery? I skip work once and this is what I get"
Unbothered by her frustration, he calmly reaches for his luggage from above them, his confidence not faltering for even a second as he takes out a thick file from the bag "I've got these"
YN blinks in disbelief for the second time today "Oh great a folder" YN deadpanned "The authorities will love that you organized their criminal activity the first one being trespassing with our names...God, they might charge us for child endangerment.."
"Please don't you think I've got it covered? I've got these documents" He smiles, then looks around sneakily and leans in to whisper "That I forged"
"I think you should have a little more faith in Shishou" Mobinterjected "If he messes up he'll promise to take the blame"
"Exactly Mob-"
"All the blame" Mob says suddenly intensely with purpose.
YN wonders if Mob was always intense.
Reigen sighs in defeat "Yes I'll take all the blame, happy now?"
"Not in the slightest" She dryly replies "But..... I trust you, so what's the plan?"
Reigen's smile was back, confidence oozing out of every pore "Just follow my lead"
She couldn't help but wonder how her mug shot would look.
-
Before YN could retort, an officer stepped in front of them "This area is strictly off limits"
YN sends off any dignity she has because right now, she is going to give it her all "No babe you can't be serious"
"Oh I'm serious alright, our son is going to meet his grandma whether you like it or not"
"Sorry officer just give us another minute" YN says sweetly before pulling Mob gently to her "That woman was a horrible wench who disowned me and threw out everything I loved"
"I-"
"They were my limited edition ninja turtle figurines, you would know this if you actually paid attention to me instead of sitting on your lazy ass all day"
"Your mother was not the best I know but-"
"Wasn't the best is an understatement for what she did, ah the woman who hated me so much for dating you and having this child" She turns to Mob and pats his head "No offense sweety, I love you so much"
"She didn't want you to date me because..."
"Because what Howard" YN pressed, she didn't know how long she could keep this charade up.
"I-I'm" Reigen looks away ashamed "I'm...lactose intolerant"
"You can't be.."
The guard looks bewildered and gasps in the background "I am...Your mother was worried that my inability to consume dairy would affect your cooking skills or you might just kill me with the amount of cheese you would cook and feed me"
"But I made you an extra cheesy and creamy pizza yesterday with extra cream"
"I take medicine for it" Dimple quickly blows a gust of wind to the officer's face to distract him which gives YN enough time to poke her eye releasing tears.
"Of cancer, the foot type and it's the last stage" YN cries harder, she poked her eye too hard.
"Honey...I didn't know.."
"I just... Loved you so much...As your mother did, she has been sending letters to you for years but since you just burned them she- I don't know had an intuition and found my office address and sent me a letter saying...she was dying"
"Oh ehm gee!"
From the corner of her hurt eye, she can see the officer sobbing with her "This is all so emotional, these documents seem somewhat feasible but don't bother about it right now j-j-just, one moment please" he runs to another officer to explain the sob story which ends up with them crying.
He hands YN flowers that seem like they've been freshly yet fiercely plucked from a bush of flowers "Please give these to her and enjoy your trip, if you guys need help or notice anything suspicious about the town don't feel worried to call us"
Dimple floats to YN "Damn I didn't know you were that good at acting"
She grins at him whipping her hair back "What can I say, I was a theater kid- Oh shit he's coming back"
The officer comes back a sniffling mess but hands YN and Reigen back the file "I just talked to my higher-ups and they gave you guys the green light" YN and Reigen thank the officer saying more things like 'YN's mother would be thankful' which leads to more sniffles.
A super buff security officer stops them in their tracks "I just checked with my superior and...."
Before they can let out a sigh of relief an officer yells from afar "Hold on there just a minute!"
They were totally going to get thrown in jail.
They all hold their breath.
"He says to escort you guys personally"
YN's legs almost give up from the panic "Thank you..."
Once they get escorted to a local shop and leave Reigen melts on the floor, YN feels like she just done drugs and Mob is just devoid of emotions still processing what happened.
The officer gives her a nod "No worries ma'am, it's just that with the news about the disappearance and aerated water factory it can be dangerous if you and your family wander too close"
"Factory?" YN piqued in interest.
"Yeah" The officer replies, tone casual but there was something uneasy in his eyes "It was a factory near this church orphanage that produced aerated water in large quantities but got shut down after a while, but the factory was never destroyed, so it was just left to be abandoned. It doesn't stop punks from entering and getting themselves into trouble though"
YN nods "If I could ask, what type of accident?"
"It's alright" The officer replies even though his voice tightens, Reigen and Mob listening intently "Some kids were getting brave for their own good —one of them jumped into the pool of aerated water. The kid died on the scene even after resuscitation because rescuers had to fish him out from below"
"Was it that deep?"
The officer shook his head, eyes darkening "That's the thing ma'am, the kid was a national swimmer"
"Then why couldn't he swim up?" YN couldn't hold her curiosity, even though she was getting uneasy by the second.
The officer turns his gaze to her as they reach their stop "That's the thing about aerated water— you don't float. You sink"
Reigen instinctively starts to talk to Mob, talking louder to drown out the silence from the conversation.
-
Reigen heaves out a shaky breath "See I told you...I'm Reigen Arataka"
She looks at him panting "You...Definitely are"
“Are you the exorcist?” She asks peering through the tiny crack of the door cautiously.
YN grabs her stuff out of the taxi "Our old church..."
"A little shocked right? I feel you" He lugs his bag and knocks on the door, it takes a while for the person to open the door, probably peeping through the peephole to check before opening the door to reveal the nun.
She shakes off the feeling when the two are out of sight and quickly follows behind.
“Yes indeed we are" He replies smoothly "This is one of my old friends she’ll tag along if that's fine”
“Yes it is no bother, the pastor always said the more the merrier”
“Alright, so what's the problem?” She escorts Reigen around, YN can't help but let her hand run through one of the chairs that she used to sit in. The memories of being young and somewhat free make her heart thump a little.
“Ah, by the way, don't tell the pastor that…” She looks down and mutters something, Reigen tries to ask her to speak up but she’s muttering even softer.
“I once tried telling the others about the oddness of it all, but they just called me deluded” Well maybe this lady was a little in YN’s mind.
So he bends down to her to hear her better, she seems alright with this “Don't let the pastor know you’re an exorcist please, calling an exorcist at a church is considered an omen of the devil”
“Oh, Uh, can do ma’am. You hear that Mob”
Mob nods, his eyes shifting left and right “Yeah, I can"
Reigen looked around to see if anyone was within earshot before speaking "You mentioned in the call, that the children here have always been tired but now more than before, right?"
After all the random getting sick and stuff could be from a bunch of things that aren't spirits “Follow me to the back please, I told the others that I’ll make the dinner today so we could have some alone time”
“If you wanted alone time we could go to a coffee shop nearby,” Reigen says when they enter the kitchen.
“Actually most workers of the church are not to go outside unless for groceries and such”
“I see, anyways continue”
“The children in the church have been getting sick every month and we can't seem to see the problem, I tried to make them veggies for an entire month and disinfected the whole area as much as I could but…”
Sister Sana nodded, her features scrunching up from the memories "Yes, it usually fluctuates from time to time after the pastor prays for them but..." Her voice softened, and a small sniffle could be heard "..We almost lost one of the kids the other day"
Mob's eyes twitch ever so slightly, a flicker of anger and concern washing over his features.
YN thinks that the lady might be a little unhinged but Reigen is writing everything intently in his notebook, she peaks at it.
Reigen catches his expression "Are they fine now?"
"Just barely..." She takes a deep breath to compose herself, then sighs shamefully “They keep getting ill.....Well they always have been ill in a way..but now it takes a week for them to be in tip-top shape”
“If that's the case why won't the church close for the orphanage? Seems unsafe”
“We can't possibly do that, well the children do get better after a couple of days moreover some people of the town rely on the priest for healing - but it's what happens in between” She shudders “They go through so much pain in the time between, it's horrible but we get reporters and donations after, then they get better. It's strange, and I always hear creaks upstairs and the whisper of something oh it's horrible"
YN grabs the boy's shoulders gently to stop him. “Oi Mob, why are you spinning?”
It's just a fat question, does this man know what's going on?
Reigen catches her glances and shuts his notebook “Mob do you sense anything?”
“Not really Shishou, but we should look around because I feel something..” Mob trails off turning in a full circle.
YN doesn't get what he means but she can already tell that it's going to be a hard job
“It's just" He stares out the window "I feel something everywhere and nowhere…I always feel like this with spirits but it's stronger but also not?” He paused, clearly struggling to put his thoughts together “I’ve been feeling this way since last week so I can't really tell the difference” Reigen nods at this looking around more.
“Odd” Mob does a final spin before speaking again "I can feel it everywhere but nowhere...It's all around me but at the same time...not?"
-
Upon arrival, YN didn't sense anything creepy about this place, only the lingering feeling of something that she shrugged off.
But now she’s certain, that something felt off with the building.
“Reigen…” she said worryingly "Can't Mob do his magic and get the spirit out of here like he did before?”
“Exorcise” He corrects then proceeds to walk forward “But no he can't, he needs to get really close and the spirit will know if something's up. It's already sketchy that we're here, to begin with”
Dimple pops behind YN, she feels the urge to smack the blob of gas if not for the fact he was made out of gas "It was my pride and joy"
“How do you know that?”
“Well, there was this cult near Mob’s place called ‘LOL’ or something, but Mob couldn't really exorcize it until he got close to it. And now we’re in a church so there's a bunch of other spirits so it's hard to tell which is which”
"He made some guy spit in my face," Mob says nonchalantly.
"What the hell Dimple"
"Hey-hey don't look at me like that, it was a…."
"But was the spitting necessary?"
Dimple just opted to fly closer to Mob instead of her, which was better anyway since his aura kind of tickled against her neck “Back on the topic on hand, I’m just going to assume that the spirit is as I hate to say this but” Reigen tries his best to muster out his next words “The spirit is as smart as Dimple”
“You prick! Did it really hurt your pride to call me smart” Dimple shouts, face scrunching up.
Reigen shrugs “Whatever we’re dealing with is definitely sentient and knows what it's doing”
YN feels a little out of place in the panning tao she does the next best thing, not helping "I guess I'll finish last week's sodoku in the-"
“And to think this guy started off by scamming people, he sure knows his spirits now”
Reigen turns to Dimple seriously “Shut up, we need to think logically”
“Maybe if we survey the place for long enough we can catch it” Dimple says.
“Exactly, and once we do… Grab it, Mob what do you think?”
Mob shakes his head in agreement “Shishou is right, we need to be sure of it also in case we cause too much trouble”
"Yes but that's exactly why you and Dimple will be talking to the priest, you can definitely pull it off"
Reigen grape her shoulder pulling her back "Oh no you are helping"
YN groans "With what? don't you think that it'll be suspicious if were all huddled up together"
"Reigen I am not flirting with the priest"
"The one with the hot priest, Anthony Scott?"
"First of all why would your mind go there, secondly I think you're the best and also I don't want to do it"
YN groans but just nods because she doesn't know how to play sodoku, Reigen senses that she isn't too convinced so he adds "Fine, and also I've been watching a bunch Fleabag"
"Yes obviously him" Reigen says with so much offense and sass "Who else could play him he's- I'm getting distracted, let's go Mob"
Dimple scoffs and turns to YN "You watch shows with a hot priest and you're at church? I can see why you're interested in coming here instead of being home" YN sighs and smiles at the thought of Reigen finding the priest hot before mentally preparing herself.
-
The room has a yellow brooding hue with a hint of purple dusting the air if that was possible.
Probably.
She sneaks up behind him before coughing very nasally into her arm to get his attention “I am…Interested in donating”
“Oh, why thank you, bless your heart” He smiles brightly ushering YN inside, and then sits down on the long chairs “Since you're new, do you have any questions?”
“Well technically speaking, I'm not new. I used to go here when I was younger”
“I never forget a face, what is your name?”
“YN, YN LN”
The pastor takes a moment to think then does a mini hop like a rabbit “Oh my have you grown, just look at you” He takes a closer look at her “You used to come here with three other friends did you not? You were all so adorable, other than your children playing tic tac toe with the handouts”
She laughs remembering some of it “Yeah, it was the good times. Speaking honestly, I was hesitant about coming back here” She doesn't know why she feels so open all of a sudden, this could be because finds comfort in talking about a time she was happy.
A small silence settles in, the pastor sighs “We can only hope for the best decisions” YN looks at the pastor to see what he means by that but she decides to stay silent when his face shows one of remorse, thinking to himself with deep grief - she regrets bringing the subject up.
“Really?”
“Well recently, there have been many missing cases, and it's not advised to cross the state, especially when there is a lookout team at the moment. I don't know how we managed to come here without trouble”
He stiffens at the mention of it while gripping tightly on his arm which looks like to is injured and is covered by a gold silklike cloth “Why yes… I’ve heard of those”
A laugh interrupts the silence, it feels like the gloomy room is lit up without light.
“The children must be having fun”
“They seem to be, yes. They’re always running around causing a ruckus around here but in a way, I envy it”
“Envy?”
“I don't have a leg yet I’m faster than you, pick up the pace squirt”
“The joy in a sense do you not YN?” He turns the question back to her “-That was out of line for me”
Her answer is an immediate “Yes”
They both smile, knowingly.
“H-Hana, m-my stamin-a can't keep up with your whee-cha-chair”
YN bids goodbye to the pastor who just gives a fond smile as she rushes out to see what's going on outside.
What she saw was none other than a crime scene, a girl in a wheelchair laughing like a Disney villain and poor Mob on the floor hyperventilating.
YN quickly asks him if he needs an inhaler which he replies “I’m super weak an old lady even beat me in running”
To which the girl in the wheel-chair, howled with laughter clutching her stomach.
Once Mob calmed down Hana (wheel-chair girl) passed him a bottle of water “I still can't believe an old lady beat you, you're so freaking funny”
Mob turns to YN for help for a reply and she just shrugs “She….was really fast…”
It was so contagious that YN let herself laugh a little until the girl fell out of her wheelchair, Mob ran to her assistance which she accepted wobbly from laughter.
“Sure sure bowl-cut boy and I was speeding my way to victory. Maybe you're the grandma”
“I am clearly a boy”
“No but- I’m going to die” The girl indeed looked like she was going to die from how red her face was getting, she kept laughing.
The laughter was cut sharp when Hana spoke "So now that I've proven how much better I am compared to this chump, can I help you defeat the demon that you're here to exorcise"
YN wouldn't be shocked if she was, wait maybe she might be one.
YN feels a light thump on her chest, looking around for anybody overhearing them "Whaaaaaaa? Us exorcist? At a church? Mob will you get a look at this fool?"
Mob nods his head rapidly but also shakes it, agreeing and also disagreeing to not be rude to both of them "Not a fool but I agree, I agree"
Hana sighs and points at YN "Sure, now why are you here sneaking around the blond dude who is definitely not your husband after you said to the receptionist you guys were?"
"Well because we c-"
She shushes YN up with her hand "Sure lady, I'm sure during the lockdown where cats and some adults go missing is a good sign to come here to visit your fake mother"
YN and Mob just stare and gulp "You caught us, are my acting skills that bad?"
She looks at Hana who rubs her head in shock "Not gonna lie, I just guessed this so it's glad to know I have great intuition. I must be a psychic or something"
Before YN could say more she noticed Reigen discretely not so discreetly waving his hand to signal them to him.
"But why not?" YN cant slap a child but might be able to explode one with her brain. Hana kept being persistent with YN running out of excuses to come up with when suddenly, shockingly Mob spoke up.
"As much as I love this little thing that's happening-"
Hana stops YN from talking again, this reminds her of her office but she doesn't feel like slapping anybody "I know you guys are going to defeat the cool demon, can I come?"
"First no we are not going to the demon and secondly even if we were no way we're bringing you" YN says slightly sternly as she would be with Sherman.
“No, you can't help” Mob says with the voice she uses when she scolds the interns.
“What? Why not Shigeo” She crosses her arm across her chest.
“It's going to be dangerous”
“Oh I see what you're doing here”
“What am I doing? I'm standing still-”
“You think I can't do it because I don't have a leg! You're an ableist, I knew it”
“What? W-WHO”
YN walks over to Reigen who has gotten tired from looking like a creep behind the tree, tilting her head to whisper to him “Do you think we should step in?”
Do all children know how to gaslight?
Angel's wings appear on his head before she sees devil horns “Nah not yet, I wanna see what happens” They both grin watching Mob stumble over his words, Dimple eats some popcorn he found in the trash and watches from the distance.
“I am not an ableist, i-i just think you-”
She shoots him a peace sign, pulling on her eye “Just kidding”
Mob feels his psychic level go up, he has never felt so….. many emotions "If you let me finish…” he inhales “I don't want you to get seriously hurt if anything happened”
"So let me come along, I clearly beat you in a race so I can hold my ground. Are you calling me weak?"
"That's not what I meant"
"What did you mean then?"
Reigen claps his hands together finally deciding to cut in before his student destroys the whole church by exploding. When Mob struggles again YN interviens "What he's trying to say, Hana, this is a super top-secret mission"
"That makes me want to join more" She whines back.
"Which is another reason why you can't come along" This time puts a firmer face "Please?"
Hana and him have a staring competition which ends with Mob in tears.
Mob rubs his eye before his face goes back to normal
“You really care about this mission going well not to include me?”
“I think I do care if you get hurt, well anyone. I want to make sure we can race again and I'll beat you in a race”
Hana stops talking, Mob didn't know it was possible “Don't go saying stuff like that…!” She throws a water bottle from the side of the wheelchair with her red face and rolls away so fast Mob couldn't see if she turned left or right.
"Okay.....Well Reigen" YN says folding her arms "Would you like to enlighten us on what we're supposed to do"
Reigen just snickers "Ah Mob I always knew you had a thing with that Teru kid but I didn't know you were a ladies' man"
Mob looks at Reigen like he wants to both go into a shell and strangle Reigen for saying anything.
"Oh right, okay listen up team. While you guys were slaking off" Mob looks at Reigen again who coughs "I might have found something. Remember the nun that hired us?"
"What about her?"
"She started making grammatical mistakes but not the normal kind" He says lowering his voice like he was revealing a grand conspiracy.
"Uh-huh" YN replies unimpressed "And how does this help?"
"Just wait!" Reigen says holding up a finger "I was walking around and got hungry so I ate my jelly—"
"Of course you were" YN muttered.
Reigen quickly grabs her arm to stop her from walking away "Listen there's more! Her eyes. There was definitely something in them"
"—And I saw her walking around. I was about to ask her something before she just stopped walking"
"What a weirdo" Dimple says, YN swats him "Shh"
"Anyways she just looked at my hand and walked away even after I called after her. I might have pissed her off"
"Oh gosh what did you do"
"I might have touched her shoulder that was sticky with jelly juice?"
YN groans "Great, so we have a nun that's pissed at you because you touched her shoulder with sticky jelly juice. Let's just go apologize and get this over with"
Mob nods understanding what's going to happen calmly.
"Like conjunctivitis?" YN replies, confused about the relevance.
"Like something swimming in them, she apologized later but something's definitely up"
YN lets out a sigh "So what's the plan?"
"I'm working on it" He replies, clearly winging it.
-
Back in the mini cabin near the church Sister Sana rented out for them, YN took a step outside to take a breather.
After all, she was going to talk to her tommorow.
She hears someone open the balcony door and sit next to her “You okay?” It's Reigen.
“Why wouldn't I be”
“You're staring at a dead lizard”
“Well go ahead and ask”
“That I am..” She watches a group of red ants slowly but uniformly make their way to the dead lizard .”What else can I do to mentally prepare myself to talk with a maybe possessed nun?"
“I'm not the best at comfort but-”
“It's nothing, I mean now that I say nothing it has to be something” YN looks at Reigen like he’s about to walk away the moment she speaks when he won't, Reigen just grabs a bag of chips and opens it for both of them to share “We got all night”
“I don't want to keep you up though”
“You won't, I forget it's not good to smoke before sleeping plus” A soft gust of wind blows in the air, it smells like trash but they don't move “Mob’s sleeping and coping somehow…I wanted to kill time quietly” He wiggles his leg over the balcony “Any hot gossip?”
“Like I have drama in my life” She scoffs “You know what. Talk about yourself, the exorcism thing I saw that day, was the only ‘dramatic’ thing that happened in my life”
"Okay let me think" She looks at Reigen for a moment "I never came around to ask but do you have hearing aids now?"
"Oh you noticed" He says playing with his hearing aid on his left ear "I've had it for over a year"
"What happened?"
"Some explosion, I'm lucky I'm only deaf in my left ear. Somehow my right side is completely fine"
"Thats good- Wait a minute, explosion? Are you referring to the terrorist attack with the whole broccoli?"
"Uhm hehe" He coughs into his hands "Okay next question"
Choke.
YN stares him down before giving up “How did you and Mob meet?”
He thinks for a moment, and smiles fondly “Well I and Mob have been together for a long time, we met when I was about to close the shop. Sometimes I think he’s an angel like I believe in. But in a way, he’s made me a better person”
“Really? Well you have always been a good person, to me at least”
Look.
Swallow.
Realize that was gross.
That was what Reigen did in that specific order.
YN quickly hands him water, he wipes his mouth looking away before saying anything more because he could implode at any moment “You…I haven't been the best, trust me. He could turn an angel into a better person"
YN suddenly feels her heart relax after a couple of minutes of silence.
“Yes YN, one hundred times seriously”
“This has to be my favorite way to spend my yearly break” Thinking about it more, it seems a little depressing she adds “Usually I just wallow in my bed or work part-time jobs”
“That sounds hard”
“Eh, it pays bills”
“Don't you have friends”
“Of course I do” Reigen says confidently while sweating.
“Well, do you?”
“Well…If you ever feel- I don't know, feel bored? I don't know, I'm bored. You can visit us and watch Mob do his psychic stuff”
YN looks at him, Reigen sees something in YN's eye, and it's definitely not conjuntivities “Are you serious?”
He sees stars and answers her “Serious for reals”
“Serious serious?” Her heartbeat quickens, is he doing it out of pity?
“No seriously I don't want to—” She doesn't actually care because Mob is cool but is so unsure.
Reigen shoves her to the side gently with his elbow “Tagging along doesn't really distract Mob, to be honest. He likes showing off a little, little rascal and keeps getting more confident by the day. With you around, he could even get better and learn new tricks”
“You think so?”
“You question my judgment a lot”
“I mean…” YN laughs, she misses him. His hair looks like it never aged, she can’t stop smiling so she turns away to look at something else “Nevermind, thank you. I’m happy to be with you again”
Mob’s silent snores can be heard from the room, it must be getting cold in there considering they left the balcony door open. Reigen suddenly seems to change in demeanor, “YN, can I be frank”
Well, that was sudden “Uhmm, sure?”
“Why did…” He wanted to say it, yell it “You did not change your clothes? You've been in those disgusting things the whole day, you might wake Mob up from the smell”
She was already making her way to the shower room.
YN faltered backward on her palms face changing from nervous, to shyly pissed.
“W-what? I already took a shower asshole, there's a drain below us. When did you get so rude,”
Reigen raises his hands to the side “Well, sorry if I can't stand to smell your stench” YN will have to hold her punch for another day.
“I…am going to sleep, you should take a shower….you’re shoulder kinda smells like rotten milk”
“What?!”
Reigen sniffed himself, he does kinda smell like it.
He has a faint smile on his lips as he replays the conversation that they just had, which for some reason kept him in a dream-like trance as he stares of into the distance.
-
The next day YN wants to chicken out when she reaches the hall but Reigen just shoves her in and leaves with a thumbs up.
Talk about an asshole.
She slowly enters the main hall, nervous, and notices someone arguing "Lead...you'll...fine"
Something falls and suddenly Sister Sana appears, her face looking paler and paler.
Like a rotting corpse.
"Uh, Sister Sana are you feeling well?"
She just stands at the doorway, her hands twitching.
Sister Sana kept stepping back until YN stopped her holding her shoulders to stop her, that might have been a bad idea because her hands tingled, and feels a shiver up her spine like something was crawling up her back.
"No fine, you want to come in?"
"Yeah no worries I'll help if needed" Before she actually goes in she steps forward reluctantly making YN take a step back.
YN signals to Reigen and Mob.
Mob emerges and yanks YN's body away.
She stumbles before finding her footing and rushing over to Reigen "What the plan?!"
YN blinks trying to keep up "An opening for what?"
Reigen, who was hiding behind a chair, yanks YN down before she could get hit with any of the ruble that were being thrown around by Mob "Funny thing, I don't" He looks over to the side before YN could lecture him "We could play conga with her"
"I swear to God if you're making a joke right now" YN is so close to strangling him.
"Wait, shut up and listen!" He cuts her off frantically "She’s not moving much, just standing in one spot. That gives us an opening"
He points to the ropes that hang on the sides of the curtains "You grab the left and I'll grab the right and on my mark throw it to me ’ll soak it in the holy water I—acquired—from a very reliable source, and then we’ll give her a good old-fashioned holy Molotov with wet ropes"
YN stares, torn between bewilderment and the urge to smack him.
She nods her head and makes it toward the other side of the room.
He could have exploded her arm, inflate it a little, Mob thinks - but he couldn't go with the plan, throughout this whole fight he’s just trying to leave as little damage to the church and try not to hurt her and the building too much.
“YN?!” Reigen shouts from the other end when Mob takes a longer time to get up.
“I’m working on it, give me a minute shit” Her hands still knotting the ropes, and sister Sana slams her hand on Mob who gets up and deflects it.
YN throws Reigen the rope she’s tied from the curtains, all that scout training was useful in the end.
Once that was done she ran and called for Reigen “Catch!” She throws the ball through her chest at him, he grabs it. Mob, who is still blocking the majority of the attacks is faltering “Mob jump!” He jumps and YN and Reigen run through her with the rope making her fall.
She's knocked out.
so much for leaving as little damage.
"Mob! Reigen are you" His hands are scratched when he gets up "Yup I'm fine, ouch" YN grabs him and runs to hide behind a box "Are you okay?"
"I'm...I think I should be fine- Shit you're bleeding" He has to hold her a little "Am I? Ow...Where's Mob? ow" She says moving her head to look for him but the more she moves the more the headache builds.
As if on cue Mob emerges from the ruble and Reigen grabs YN carefully in case he jostles her too much "Shit he might lose control, YN I-"
"Don't get mad"
"Mad why would I-"
YN whips out holy salt that was acquired from one of Reigens notorious rivals.
-
He would throw a tantrum if not for the situation, he thinks for a moment thinking of a solution before speaking "There are kids in the other building, you need to move them out of here to the playground or something in case it collapses" He quickly instructs her.
She nods immediately and hands the salt to him "Goodluck"
When she said she wanted excitement, she did not mean trying to save kids from an almost collapsing church.
The kitchen with all of the children was the opposite of what she expected considering the ruble and stuff, they seemed to be enjoying it.
That was before a large chunk of the ceiling almost squashed a kid.
"Children I've come to rescue you so if you all could just not-"
"The end of the world is here, the priest did always say God hated orphans, we're all orphans!" The girl who almost got squashed yells out, what do they teach orphans?
"...Scream, single file I need at least twenty of your short heads to go. Now!"
YN grabs the little kids and alerts the other nuns and workers in the building to grab the infants.
"Nineteen...Who else is" She looks around the room to hear the lack of a nagging voice "Oh God, Hana?! Is Hana here?" Everyone looks around in a blurred motion, all too shaken up.
YN quickly rushes back inside the building.
"Hana?! Hana-" YN hears a faint voice, and she runs towards it.
"Why are you even here?" YN says frustrated as she carries her out of the building, the ground shakes again.
She shouts again, it's like playing marco polo before YN sees her wheelchair tipped sideways on the floor with scratches on her arm "Are you okay?"
Hana looks up giving her a hopeful look before quickly switching her personality "My entire arm hurts but I found out about the super evil sister nun that I didn't know about, talk about a plot twist with no build-up"
She takes that as a yes.
"Well, I sort of didn't listen to Mob and spied around a little and found out some stuff" YN is too worried to get mad before she remembers "Jelly?"
She sets Hana down and looks back to the scene where everything is happening.
The aura thickens for a moment and a burst of light shines through that no one can seem to see.
YN quickly rushes back to the building to only see Reigen beside Mob asking if he's okay and a tied-up nun with salt in her hair.
She thinks she heard Reigen cuss out a small "Damn that bastard makes some good holy salt"
Reigen and Mob notice her and wave her down.
'Damn It, I missed all the good fighting stuff"
YN rushes towards them kneeling to check on Mob, he seemed alright and she ruffled his hair with a relieved smile.
Then she checks on Reigen whose face is scratched up, she punches him lightly "How the hell are we going to explain to the authority that we visited my 'mom' and accidentally destroyed a building?"
"The authorities?" Reigen echoed, wincing as he touched one of the scratches on his face.
"That little stunt caused a mini earthquake, did you guys know that Hana somehow helped us indirectly?" She replies half amused and half annoyed.
"Uhm no? Maybe this spirit hates it, but it's pretty odd for a spirit to reveal itself as she did. It looked like she was so repulsed by it, which is weird considering she kills cats - she's pretty stupid"
"Huh?" Sweet Mob asks "I told her not to help"
"Well she did, apparently our little spirit here hates jelly- Hey dimple, do you hate jelly?"
Mob tugs on YN's shirt gently "I can fix the building" Before she could reply, the building was repairing itself.
YN would faint if not for the fact they still needed to deal with Sister Sana being tied up on the floor.
"But you have the wr-"
Speaking of the 'devil' she stirs awake seemingly unaware of what happened "W-why am, please its all a misunderstanding"
Reigen glooms over her "Sure it is lady, you called us and got us looking but you didn't think we would find you, HAH"
Reigen stepped forward, trying to remain nonchallant to explain the situation to the priest who was still confused "It's not, well it kind of is but you need to be-"
The priest rushes in a panic "Are you guys alright?! I just saw the children outside, I was just visiting neighbors before I felt the earthquake hit- Why is sister Sana tied up in a ring of salt, please tell me this isn't a ritualistic-"
There is a very pregnant silence between everyone, thank God the building was fixed before he rushed in.
Sister Sana struggles with her bounds, her face losing color and her face looking fainter as the second goes on.
The priest notices and rushes to aid, face filled with only urgency.
She shakes her head and looks over to YN "Please you've got it all wrong"
The three of them—YN, Reigen, and Mob—could only stand there, frozen in their awkwardness. YN couldn't help but think, Why isn't he throwing her to jail or something? Or at least tell the police about it, but maybe since they're in a church he's being forgiving.
He takes a deep sigh, Sana continues to struggle "I forgive you, Sana"
"What? N-no, you-"
He kneels down to her level "I said I forgive you, sister, in these trying times I feel like we could resort to anything" Sana struggles on her bounds but stops when the priest holds her hands remorsefully while looking down "Relax, you don't have to worry anymore" She falls limp in his arms "I'll protect you"
But for real, this woman has probably killed so many cats and people.
Then again, if he forgives her, it's whatever.
The three of them can only stand awkwardly watching the ordeal.
"There is no place for an exorcist in this place but...On this very special occasion, I guess I could let it slide, just this once. I heard you helped with the orphans YN and Reigen, thank you"
"It's no problem" Reigen replied quickly forcing a smile.
The priest ponders for a second "I must say, I'm surprised the building looks almost brand new considering the children said the building was falling and Hana's scratches" He side-eyes them, clearly skeptical.
Mob nods furiously at this.
They all laugh nervously at this, YN cleared her throat "About that, there was an earthquake that caused-"
"A huge one!" Reigen interrupts, a little too loud.
The priest nods and looks at sister Sana's limp body on his lap before he scratches his arm once more before appearing calmer.
He winks at them "Don't worry I'll keep your secret" He gently picks up sister Sana "I think I'll take it from here, just make sure the children are okay before sneaking out, alert an ambulance if you can"
YN doesn't fail to notice the increased red blotches on the priest's robe, seemingly getting bigger "Are you okay though Pastor?"
The priest's expression twisted for a fleeting moment into something like fear before he quickly shook his head, smiling again "Must have been from the earthquake, the stitches must have opened up again" He takes a breath "I'll handle the authorities, in the meantime, I think you children should skadalde out of here - I'm sure the police won't do well when they hear someone didn't go visit their grandmother's place"
"How did you-"
"A friendly cop was sobbing holding a bush knocking on everyone's door because 'a blond man and his partner are visiting someone who has cancer' so I'm guessing my wild guess is correct?"
YN gapes at this, the sides of her mouth twitching "Spot on.."
They nod without making a fuss, Reigen sends a bird to call the paramedics to the room to alert them before leaving.
As they make an exit to the back door YN feels something creep up on the back of her neck, she rubs it to check before shrilling silently.
Reigen turned towards her trying to shush her before he shrilled with her, only he wasn't as quiet as her.
"Oh my god Mob do something, it so ew, ew ew ew ew!"
She frantically slaps her neck, feeling it crawling "Get it off! Get it off!"
Mob calmly removes the centipede, gently plucking it from her neck, as it floats the dread in YN's face only grows "Is that a—?"
"Gross it's a centipede," Dimple says with a disgusted expression before slurping the offending creature "There, problem solved"
Mob looks at Dimple with horror "Dimple, that's disgusting"
YN looked like she was about to faint while Reigen was leaning on a tree to try not to.
While the adults who seemed to be on the verge of a full mental breakdown over a bug, Mob and Dimple navigate the two to a secluded area to pull themselves together before slipping past security to the nearest train station.
"Close, but it's to always collect your deposit!"
Reigen heaves a breath and looks at Mob "So Mobbu, what have you learned from today's job?"
Mob thought for a moment, expression serious "Not to trust nuns"
-
The ride home is surprisingly relaxing after everything that went down.
Well, it's mostly because everyone was tired.
YN looks out the train's window to enjoy the view while she can, there's only so many things you can look at in a city “I can't believe I used my weekend for this, I'm going to be so behind at work”
“You sure have a lot to be worrying about on a weekend” Reigen says opening his onigiri he got at FamilyMart.
“Yeah, it sucks balls” She agrees but then shakes her head “But actually scratch that, I don't think I would have a better use of it”
“I mean what would you do, if not for work?”
“I don't know, maybe catch up on a show and write-” Oh she let that slip out.
He wishes he could have said goodbye to Hana, YN reassured him that she was fine with minor scratches.
“You write?"
“Well not really, it's just something I do in my free time”
“Oh well, I hope it goes well. I tried writing a book once" He swats his hand raising his brows "Did not go well”
“He made mob write the whole thing”
“Dimple!”
“You what?”
“Well….it was uhm…you see….”
“Mrs.YN it was kinda fun actually so I didn't mind all that much” Mob defends.
“You trying to make him your slave? Mob if this bad man hurts you, I won’t hesitate-”
“I am not abusing my power! I even give the kid extra pork slices-”
“Sure you do”
Mob just leans on YN’s shoulder blushing as Reigen and her argue, Dimple seemingly also feeling tired rested on Mob's lap.
Mob also notices that YN tends to move more when she smiles similarly to Reigen when he gets money from customers, is she happy now?
He hopes she can be happy.
YN smiles and rests her hands on her chin, the scenery outside is nice.
She should do this more often.
-
They all reach home, Mob agrees to do another job which in return for a raise and a week off work.
“Weird that we both beat up a nun?” He jokes.
They somehow ended up talking about their moms when Reigen made a 'Your Mom' joke “Yeah, I don't live with her anymore. What about your mom?” YN says.
“Pretty much the same, don't talk to her much these days”
“We have that in common, it's weird”
“Weird that I can speak to you again” YN says seriously.
Reigen is a little shocked about this but relaxes “Yeah, I guess”
“Come along with me then” YN feels like he's trapped even though he isn't holding her.
Reigen looks at his watch, it's only 4:30 in the afternoon so he grows some balls and asks “Are you bored?”
YN checks her phone, she left Sherman with her boss at the library and is only supposed to pick him up in late evening “Yeah I guess, I have another day off"
She steps forward, Mob is buying a snack with Dimple.
"What? Come where?"
"Anywhere" He hovered her hand as if he was asking for permission - YN wasn't sure if he pitied her, but right now.
This was Reigen, asking for her hand.
Someone wants her company.
She grabs him back, gripping him tighter.
Her heart burns.
It hasn't burnt in a long time.
"Anywhere.." with you "sounds nice"
She lets them go after, but the smiles never leave their faces that day.
Consumption 0%
a/n THANK YOU FOR READING,,, this is actually part of my fanfic that i have been working on for ages and also im trying to feed the Reigen 2024 drought that the fandom is experiencing.