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[No time like the present then for a call! Ring, ring, Yata please pick up]

I'm here.

Tell me about yourself, Yata.

[She's known a Yata before, but he never really talked much about himself.]

Me? [ his voice cracks a bit. ] I mean, what's there to say? I'm the vanguard of HOMRA...

Anything you like. What are your interests? Hobbies? What is your favorite colour? Do you like flowers? [There are a ton that she can think of just off the top of her head.]

What is HOMRA? A country?

Uh... I like skateboarding and playing video games. [ he's boring. ] Cooking's fun too, but not a lot of people like the way I cook. And I like red? Red's a nice colour, and I'm also part of the Red Clan. Flowers are nice... [ his voice cracks a bit. his first name means "a beautiful blossom" so he's always been kind of close to flowers, but-- ] They're too girly, though.

HOMRA's the Red Clan! We're a group of people in Shizume City. It's pretty hard to explain, though... ha hah...

[Of course, she carefully addresses every single thing he said.]

I have always wanted to try skateboarding. And what kind of video games? How do you cook? What do they not like about it? I also like red, although I admit that I do not really have a preference when it comes to colour. I think they are all beautiful.

What do you find girly about flowers?

So it is a group, then. And you are a vanguard of it? What does it do? What do you do as vanguard?

Video games... uh, I like all kinds, really. Especially the fighting ones. [ he doesn't make a mention of the skateboarding thing, but he's against it. it'd be cool, but it's also dangerous, veronica!! ] I put a lot of fruits and vegetables in the stuff I make... Saru hates it.

And they're just girly! I don't have to explain that. They just are.

We're-- We kind of have our own territory in Shizume City, so we look over it and make sure no trouble happens. And since I'm the vanguard, I'm the one who charges in first and scouts stuff.

I have yet to play any fighting ones. [If only because she couldn't bring herself to really enjoy hurting someone else, even if it was virtually.] I have played puzzle games before and found some of them quite fun and challenging. And putting fruits and vegetables sounds delicious. I would very much like to try your cooking someday.

That is not an explanation. And flowers are not just for girls, surely? They are beautiful and resilient and they have such lovely smells and colours. Is that girly?

Then you are like freelancing knights of a sort?

... I guess I can cook for you. And let's play ViViD sometime.

[ he'll try not to freak out so much. ]

And yeah, it is girly.

—Oh, uh, no, not really? We're just... a clan.

Or we can cook together, perhaps? I would like that, as well as playing ViViD. [Don't freak out, Yata, she'll be sad...]

I see. But surely a boy can be just as beautiful and resilient.

So you are like a family, then.

Sure, we can do all those.

[ he really will try not to!! ]

I dunno, it's just not my style, even if-- [ urk. he audibly swallows at that, but doesn't continue. ]

Yeah... HOMRA's a real family.

Even if what? [Don't think she's going to let that slide without asking about it.

At least she knows that family comes in all shapes and sizes. Like her and Carlo who aren't related by blood but whom she thinks of like a brother. And then her own actual brothers whom she saw once in a blue moon and had a hard time understanding.]

I would have liked to meet them. Your family.

[ yata audibly grumbles, but doesn't say anything to continue. please don't ask him to say anything else, veronica!!!!! ]

I have a friend here, from home. His name's Saruhiko.

Ah.

[ he swallows. ]

I mean, his name's Fushimi.

[Is he Saruhiko or Fushimi? She wonders what the difference is that he has to change the way he refers to his own friend.]

Saruhiko Fushimi? Is Fushimi...his family name? [Or maybe Saruhiko was his family name?]

Y- Yeah, it is.

[ like how yata is his! ]

May I ask, then, why it is that you called him first by his name and then by his family name?

He might get mad if you call him by his first name.

May I ask why that is?

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