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[swordboning]

...you've reached Archer. Leave a message and if it's suitable, I'll get back to you.

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[codere]

Is that it? [ Lifting her head to look up at him, she smiles. ]

Thank you, Archer. For making us this meal.

Please let's enjoy it.

[swordboning]

[Rin, you sweet summer child.

Okay, taking up a bite in his own chopsticks.]

Of course.

[codere]

[ Time to dig in, which she does so readily. Shoveling it into her mouth with the chopsticks, she just keeps her mouth low to the plate and full of food. She must have been really hungry. ]

[swordboning]

[Of course she was hungry, she's always hungry. Archer takes his time, though, so Rin can take as much food as she wants.]

[codere]

[ Every so often she'll pause to make sure he's eating before resuming her own actions. After she's stuffed her face enough, she'll look him over thoughtfully. ]

... so how many cute girls have you been cooking for in my absence?

[swordboning]

Just one household full. Though I wouldn't call them cute. Most are simply annoying in one way or another.

[Thankfully, he's said the same to them so no biggie.]

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[undaunts]

[She is totally showing up here to ask for food. Is that surprising? It really shouldn't be surprising.

Except that as soon as she sits at a chair and prepares to order food.

That mask shows up next to her with its little :( face.]

Gah!

[She falls out of her chair, of course.]

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[swordboning]

[Add a couple of angry eyes and it might look a lot like what Archer's face is looking like right now. Surprises are no fun. Especially when his own mask that he can't seem to get rid of is kind of sporting cracks all over.]

...it's a wrong guess but I just want to make sure. This isn't your fault, is it?

[undaunts]

[Close enough to an archer face.

She's dragging herself back up off the ground when he asks that, and she just frowns.]

Of course not! It's freaky! It's so freaky. I want it to stop!

[swordboning]

You'd probably do better to stop worrying about it. Even if it's freaky, it's easy to ignore unless you're worried about someone judging you.

[Like an Archer. Who is very busy in being a hypocrite, as usual.]

[undaunts]

... Well, I mean, it looks like the mask is judging me--

[but anyway]

You have one too, right? Oh-- yeah, you do. Yours looks...different?

[...huh.]

[codere]

That isn't a very nice thing to say, Archer. [ Don't worry, she'll scold him for it. ]

This is why you have no friends.

[swordboning]

And you have multitudes to brag about.

[codere]

I have a friend. [ A SINGLE FRIEND. ]

[swordboning]

[Wait for it.

The smug, shit eating grin.]

And I have two. You'll have to work a little harder at this, Rin.

[codere]

You do not have two friends.

[ Shit, Rin needs two more friends at least. ]

[swordboning]

Try Athena and Rei. If you pull out your fingers, you might find out that it adds up to two.

[codere]

You can't be friends with a Master. [ Or else they would be friends?! ]

It's against the rules.

[swordboning]

I don't remember anything like that being written down. Besides, she's not a Master anymore so it wouldn't apply to her.

[swordboning]

Don't look at it too hard and I won't look at yours, regardless of what look it's giving.

[Staring is rude anyway. If Ruby loses her appetite because of it, oops.]

[codere]

She was a Master at one point so it counts. [ It does, it does count. Don't argue it with her!! ]

So we both only have a single friend each.

[swordboning]

I'm not agreeing to your requirements so it's still two for me, one for you. Anyway, I told another girl to be your friend so you just have to go along with her and we'd be tied.

[undaunts]

[...]

Okay. I won't look at yours then if it bugs you that much.

[At least, that's what she's assuming that means.]

Mine's just kinda...there.

[codere]

You can't bully people into being my friend, Archer. [ A friendship has to be mutual and sadly Rin fails to think of others as her equal in most situations. ]

Naruto came back but... [ He doesn't remember her. How can they be friends then? ]

[swordboning]

It doesn't bug me. I'd just rather not have you get cursed by something idiotic and have it blamed on me.

[The last thing he needed was an angry Yang on his back.]