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[octopot]

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works at Apollo

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□ child □ shun □
 

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"Takasu here! I'm busy at the moment but I'll get back to ya later, no worries!
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[staminaroll]

[It's not like it's hard to find Takasu when he needs him, but it's a little more awkward for Furuya to find him with a pair of loose sweatpants in his hand.]

... Takasu? Do you have a minute?

[octopot]

[ And here he's in the middle of a bath in one of the kiddie pools while watching some random shit on TV.

He looks over to Furuya. ]

Sure! What's up, Satoru?

[staminaroll]

[He glances at the TV--this place has the strangest shows--then comes to crouch next to Takasu's pool.

He only looks at the tentacles for a minute. Sorry, Dad.]

You said you were on the blue team, right? I need a favor.

[octopot]

[ Please, the normal world has weird shows too.

But he mutes the one he was currently watching. ]

Yeah, I did. And what favor?

[staminaroll]

[It does, but he doesn't watch much tv so it's mostly weird to him.

He holds up the pants.]

I need to you to put these on so I can take them off.

[Perfectly logical.]

[octopot]

[ Excuse the few moments of silence... ]

Wha--?

[staminaroll]

For the competition. I'm supposed to pants a member of the blue team... you're on the blue team, right?

[If not, this just got even more awkward.]

[octopot]

Yeah, I am... [ He's just a bit.. confused. ] I thought "pants" only was a sort of clothes. [ He points at the pants Furuya brought with him. ]

[staminaroll]

I thought so too, but I guess you can also say it for taking the pants off of someone. It's supposed to be a surprise, but... [He shrugs. He's not about to do to someone what Isashiki-senpai did to him, not least of all because that's a lot of effort.]

[octopot]

Man, humans come up with the weirdest things. [ But uh. ] I guess we could always try it.

[staminaroll]

Thank you.

[It doesn't make a ton of sense to him either, but he had it done to him and he really doesn't want to lose to Isashiki-senpai over this. He approaches two of Takasu's tentacles and crouches down.]

[octopot]

No problem.

[ He takes the pants, and pulls on the pants. ]

This is much weirder than when I had human legs, and that was weird too. People got upset when I didn't want to wear pants or underwear.

[staminaroll]

[Furuya's a little surprised when Takasu takes the pants, but then again he does have eight tentacles so it's not like he can't do it himself.]

You had human legs? Was that here?

[octopot]

[ So is he supposed to button them up because he doesn't think he can do that without some tentacle squishing. ]

Yeah, for a little while, when I first got here, I was entirely human. ...it was weird. How do you guys even work only two legs? I never got the hang of that.

[staminaroll]

[Nah, they're just coming off anyway. Furuya didn't think this through, he'd've brought sweatpants if he'd planned it out.]

How did that happen? Did this place do that to you? [A pause while he looks at his own legs.] I've only ever had two so I'm not sure. I don't think I could manage with eight. That seems like a lot to keep track of.

[octopot]

[ That would've been a better option. ]

The Landlord has some magic trick that turns everyone human when they arrive here. [ Oh! ] Not at all, I think they're really easy to work with!

[staminaroll]

Really? How did you get turned back?

[He starts to reach forward toward the pants--this is way more awkward than he expected it to be, and also now they're probably wet. Oops.]

If you're used to it it must seem easier. I wouldn't know what to do.

[octopot]

I dunno, it just happened one day when I opened a mail I got.

[ It was his birthday, but he's forgotten the date, so he didn't realize it was a birthday present. He's thinking bout about figuring out why he suddenly got that kind of mail instead of thinking about the pants. ]

Ah, yeah, I suppose that's right.

[staminaroll]

You opened a letter and got your legs back?

[Between Kazuki-san's instant marriage and Takasu's instant legs, Furuya's pretty much off opening mail ever again here.]

[octopot]

Yeah, I did. Weird, right?

[ Are they scaring him off from opening mail? That's at least not Takasu's intentions. ]

[staminaroll]

[Probably nobody's intentions but Furuya's surprisingly impressionable.]

Were they in the letter?

[octopot]

[ Ah, sorry, then. He can always ask one of his family members to help him if he needs it. ]

No, it was completely empty. But when I opened it my normal legs just appeared.

[staminaroll]

[He'd have to get mail first, really. All he gets is landlord stuff now.]

Magic... Are you magic too, Takasu?

[Clearly this is the obvious answer.]

[octopot]

[ Maybe if he got a pen pal... ]

Nope, I'm not. I'm just a normal octopus.

[staminaroll]

[Furuya would very much like to debate that--most octopi can't talk, can they?--but he doesn't want to be rude to his father.

Instead he crouches down near the tentacles with the pants on them.]

Can I take these off now?