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I'd take tea! That way I can pretend I'm being a little virtuous.

[ The first thing Ritsuka does is drop the bag and start unpacking it. There are three kinds of cup noodles, including an intimidatingly-spicy looking thing, and also a whole variety of different chips, some in some unique flavors. ]

Got it—coming right up.

[ She'll get to work on that, meanwhile! ]

[ This is the best way to bond, you understand, food and hanging out; Ritsuka is humming cheerfully as she gets the noodles set up and the chips on display. ]

[ Oh yes, absolutely. Just girls hangin' out.

Eventually, Mizuki appears to set two cups down upon the table. It's a tasty (your tea flavor of choice). ]

There. Piping hot tea, a toasty kotatsu... This is what life is all about.

Don't forget the snacks! Those are also important.

[ They've got tea and cup noodles. At least one of those chip flavors is weirdly sweet, so that probably counts for dessert. ]

Definitely. They're saving me from starving, and no amount of tea would dot that!

Right, right, you can't just live on tea alone.

[ She snaps her chopsticks apart, because getting those cheap wood ones is just part of the experience. ]

Even chazuke has more than just tea in it.

[ Where would we be without cheap wooden chopsticks. ]

Now I wish there was some leftover rice in the fridge... I should start making extra, since we can't order takeout whenever we want here.

Right? I live with a bunch of really talented cooks, but sometimes you really just want cheap junk food. But the closest we've gotten to that here is that we briefly had a standard combini.

Ruggie really spoils me, but he left earlier… [ No one here to make dinner when she wants to be lazy under kotatsu. ] What happened to the combini?

Eh, that's not very nice of him.

[ She says this very seriously. Oh no. how could Ruggie have done this, ]

Anyway, it was in that weird alternate prison we were in for a couple of weeks. Honestly, the diner is a lot nicer, but I still miss some of the stuff in that combini.

[ Right? How could he?? How dare he have dinner plans elsewhere in Mizuki's time of need????? ]

Oh, that place again... Yeah, I think I'd rather have combini food because I want to, not because I have to. That'd get old real fast.

It was the only thing we had to eat for all meals for like a week... it sucked.

But it could've been worse, right? From what I heard about the place, I'd expect prison slop.

It could've been a lot worse. ...Honestly, the thing about it wasn't that it was horrible, it was just--really inconvenient. This village is practically a resort, right? We get so much freedom to move around and ask for things. That other place was just--lots of little petty unpleasant things.

So what was the point, to make you miserable for a little bit?

I think it was a little more involved than that. That was around when the Warden was trying really hard to make our possessions take over us.

Oh, right. And then that weird palace stuff happened too, didn't it? Everything now sounds so quiet in comparison. Mostly.

Yeah, that wasn't fun... even if things around here are quiet, my ridealong hasn't stopped complaining about it.

... You have one of those?

I mean, you know.

[ She taps her temple. ]

The possessions that the Warden gives us? I already knew mine from before.

Oh, that's what you mean.

... Yeah, I guess they are ride-alongs in their own way. I usually think something along the lines of freeloader.

I dunno, we're all technically freeloaders except for the people on Echidna.

Is it freeloading if it's against your will?

I think it depends on who you ask.

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