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[goen]

[ Is it that he can't read the mood or that he doesn't care... a mystery for the ages. But really he just wants to know more about Toshi!! ]

Oh, I dunno about unimportant. I bet they'll all add up eventually. I've even had two halves of a memory come months apart.

One of my more recent ones... oh, I was fighting another god! A big-name one by the name of Bishamon. She caught me with her whip and tried to shoot me, but whoosh-- [ he mimics swinging a sword ] -- I cut the bullets right in half! Two in one swing.

[arahoushi]

[On the one hand, it's weirdly reassuring to hear that even gods have personal troubles, and on the other hand....]

Dude. What did you do.

[And on the other hand, here Toshi is, automatically assuming that if someone tried to shoot Yato there was probably a reason for it.]

Cutting bullets with a sword is badass, but dude.

[goen]

[ ET TU TOSHI... ]

What did I do?! How do you know she wasn't just a crazy skank?!

[arahoushi]

...You literally just got out of jail.

[d u d e.]

[goen]

This is this life, and that one's that one! She could've had god rabies!

[arahoushi]

Relax, relax.

[Drink some orange juice, possible new roommate. Toshi hands over a glass of it, freshly squeezed and delicious.]

God rabies, though....I wonder if that's contagious. Hey, do I need to get you your shots before I let you in the apartment?

[He's teasing. Probably? Yes, definitely, maybe teasing.]

Seriously though, you can fight and you fought a god called Bishamon... [Hang on, he's wracking his brain here trying to remember the limited Japanese mythology he learned in high school. Wasn't Bishamon a lucky god? And if Yato's 'godliness' involves being good at fighting maybe he's a war god?] Maybe you're...I dunno. Izanagi or whatever his name is? I don't know this stuff that well.

[Obviously.]

[goen]

[ Oh hey orange juice. Yato takes it and admittedly does calm down a bit. Can't spill the goods. And luckily, Yato has had plenty of time to brush up on his mythology since his first god-related memory, so he knows enough to speak with a little authority. ]

No way. Izanagi was the grandaddy of all gods. I'm just me! Yato then and Yato now.

[ ... Funny how that works since Yato isn't technically his real name. Huh. And the next part, he'll only admit because Toshi is a nice guy and probably won't make fun of him for it... ]

I get the feeling I wasn't too big, as far as gods go. Japan's supposed to have eight million of 'em.

[arahoushi]

Eight--

[Yato is right. Toshi laughs, but it's a faintly disbelieving laugh, because that number is way too high.]

Jeez. Eight million. How would anybody remember them all?

[Nope. He's shaking his head. Too many. Way too many. Not even gonna try thinking about that.]

Well, whatever, forget Japan. We're not in Japan, so to us, you're a pretty big deal, "just" Yato.

[goen]

[ Oh my god that was like the nicest possible thing a person could've said. ]

Thanks, Toshi. You're gonna make me blush.

[ He clenches a fist!! Not his cookie hand, obviously. ]

And I'm gonna make myself a big deal! I'll be the kind of god the Inkwell deserves!

[arahoushi]

[Obviously not his cookie hand. Toshi knows Yato would never waste cookies like that.]

Inkwell's very own disaster of a god!

[He's teasing. He likes Yato an awful lot. Toshi raises his own glass and holds it out.]

Cheers, your holiness. ...Wait, would it be your holiness or something else? What do you call a god...?

[goen]

[ Yato raises his OJ and clinks it with Toshi's!! Even if that disaster comment is a little too on point for a joke... ]

You can call me Lord Yato. Hehe! It's got a nice ring to it.

[ please god don't call him that ]

[arahoushi]

[Toshi laughs hard.]

Sorry, but I can't! There's only one "lord" for me and I'm sorry to say you're just not him. Guess you're gonna have to stay "just Yato"!

[Maybe Yato can get someone else to call him "Lord Yato"]

[goen]

[ Yato doesn't even really want to be called Lord, but ]

What! Who're you already calling that?!

[arahoushi]

Uh.

[Oh. Crap.]

Nobody! It was a joke, I'm not actually calling anybody that!

[It's just that, hypothetically, if he'd sworn to stay by someone's side until death that'd make them a lord, right? STOP THINKING ABOUT IT, TOSHI.

A funny expression crosses his face and he quickly hides it by taking another drink.]

[goen]

[ Yato leeeeaaans closer. ]

Toooooshiiiiii!

[arahoushi]

[Whyyyyy the leaaaaaning.

Toshi sighs. Very Heavily.]

It's just one of those hallucinomemories, it's fine.

[HE'S NOT CALLING IT A MEMORY, NO SIR.]

[goen]

[ !!! ]

So you were a knight? A samurai?

[arahoushi]

What? No!

[At least he doesn't think so.]

Well...maybe a samurai, I don't know. But I don't think so. It's not a big deal anyway, I've been pretty lucky, I haven't gotten the kinds of hallucinations most people have.

[goen]

Like, everyone was a samurai. If you're not sure what you were, then based on statistics alone, you probably were one.

[ let's be real for a moment ]

[arahoushi]

[Toshi snorts.]

Yato. I'm a bouncer. I work in a bar and I've never watched a samurai movie in my life, much less been one.

[Isn't it wild how Yato says "I'm a god" and Toshi just rolls with it, but good luck getting him to admit his memories are memories.]

I seriously doubt I was ever samurai, and if I was I seriously doubt I actually pledged loyalty to...some tiny guy dressed in women's clothing.

[He is also not going to ask himself how he knows it's women's clothing he remembers said tiny guy wearing.]

[goen]

Uh huh...

[ Those ellipses say just about everything that needs to be said about that. ]

What kind of women's clothing?

[arahoushi]

Seriously?

[C'mon, Yato, he did you the favor of taking what you say at face value!]

I don't know! Like a kimono or something, and he was holding a veil over his head.

[He gestures over his head to demonstrate.]

[goen]

Sounds specific. Especially for the mind of a guy who's never watched a samurai movie in his life.

[ Pledging loyalty sounds just!! a little!! samurai!! ]

[arahoushi]

What, do samurai movies involve a lot of men wearing women's clothing? Is that a thing in them that I missed somehow?

[NO IT ISN'T LET HIM LIVE]

[goen]

It's totally a thing! Happens all the time.

[ No it's not but it's not like Toshi can dispute that now CAN HE ]