Intermission for Love

[bogusmagicker]

[Yuki awakens.

This being, as usual, something that does not usually happen, she takes a few moments to sort through her stored memory for the events of the last few hours and comes up with nothing.  She satisfies herself that this is Mayfield at work once again when her efforts to change the bowling alley into the world's largest bowl of ice cream

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[i_gar_ashi]

[Ganta wakes up to find a small, blank-eyed girl staring at him. It says a lot that this is pretty normal for Ganta.]

...Where have I ended up this time?

[bogusmagicker]

[Waiting for dark-haired introspective young men to wake up isn't entirely unusual for Yuki either. She will respond quietly.]

The bowling alley.

[i_gar_ashi]

Ugh... [Ganta rubs his head, looking around the alley.] Is anybody else here? [His eyes flicker around the place, fully expecting some kind of horror to arrive out of the shadows.]

[bogusmagicker]

No.

[Yuki's eyes remain fixated upon Ganta's face as she utters this response.]

That is the purpose of this occurrence.

[i_gar_ashi]

Uh. [Well, this is getting weird fast.] What do you mean?

[bogusmagicker]

It is a 'date'.

[Pronounced somewhat ominously. Ganta may be forgiven if he thinks Yuki was the one who kidnapped him.]

[i_gar_ashi]

A what!? [You can see his brain breaking.] I don't, I mean... H-How come?

[bogusmagicker]

A date.

[Because Yuki takes all questions literally. She doesn't seem to be very disturbed herself.]

They exist for the purpose of strengthening the romantic relationship between two humans prior to commitments of engagement or marriage.

[i_gar_ashi]

You're being incredibly calm about this, you know. Doesn't it weird you out that they do this stuff to us?

[bogusmagicker]

I have grown accustomed. Allowing emotion to interfere with the correct action in these situations would be unproductive.

[i_gar_ashi]

And... what exactly is the "correct action"?

[bogusmagicker]

This incident has occurred twice before.

Wait.

[i_gar_ashi]

Twice? Really? Geez...

Uh, well, it's nice to meet you anyway, I guess. You're from Japan, right?

[bogusmagicker]

[Yuki will nod in confirmation.]

Nishinomiya.

[She will wait politely to hear about his own hometown.]

[i_gar_ashi]

I'm from Tokyo. I mean, I was, before the earthquake, I mean.

[bogusmagicker]

Which?