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Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [09/16].

Shunsui wasn't quite sure if this was a store thing or a Summer-chan messing up on her job thing, but there appeared to be an abundance of guacamole in the store that day and a distinct lack of chips, which Apu-san seemed to think was done on purpose, because the bread stock was fine, so perhaps her intention was something along the lines of avacado toast, what with that being so popular with the Millenials these days and everything, which only prompted Shunsui to ask what a Millenial was (being lived through a few millenia, anyway), and it was something he almost instantly regretted asking.

Eventually, after realizing that Apu-san clearly had no idea of the meaning of the words he was attempting to use were, he waved the conversation away, told him to go put up a display, and then went to get back to napping at the counter between customers.

But, hey, if anyone needed guacamole, they were having a great sale on it.

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Octavia wasn't here for guacamole. Octavia wasn't here specifically for anything, really, she was just -- here. Feeling slightly more stable again than she had for most of last week, but not by much.

She headed further into the store for some groceries before any move towards the counter, though.

Could Octavia possibly be convinced to just take some guacamole anyway?

While Shunsui just took her heading into the aisles as a good opportunity to squeeze a little more pretending not to sleep in before she finished finding what she was looking for, ignoring the small part of his brain that wondered if he should see if she needed help.

She knew her way around and hadn't bothered with so much as a greeting. That felt pretty suggestive of preferring some space, and he could hardly mind simply staying put.

Octavia didn't need help. Because... that involved knowing what she was looking for in the first place. When she finally made her way to the counter, several moments later, the things she set down perhaps looked more planned than they were.

Some fresh fruit. Oreos. A bottle of sandalwood shower gel, and a packet of hair ties. (Conspicuous, kind of, when you took into account she never seemed to wear her hair anything but down, these days.)

"Ha yun, Shunsui," she rasped. "I'm taking these."

(Ah, but her snogon did, no?)

"We typically expect people to purchase them first," said Shunsui, who really couldn't help himself with a small grin on that one, "but I suppose we can make an exception for you, Octavia-chan ♥."

First things first, though, as he held out a cup.

"Sake ♥?"

Octavia's withering look at his joke was half-hearted. She knew how shops worked! Even if she didn't want to.

Then, the shrug. "Sure."

Shunsui was definitely not going to apologise for that one, especially since it wasn't even really a joke, as once the sake was taken care of, he'd be putting Octavia's things in a bag without bothering to ring them up.

It was his shop, he could do that.

"Are you having a good day, Octavia-chan ♥?"

And Octavia wasn't going to be saying anything about the lack of payment, either.

She was, however, going to give his question a vague scoff - and then just move past it altogether. She shook her head and glance back at the store at large. "What's with all the guacamole?"

"Either the store was in a mood this morning," Shunsui said, looking a bit chagrined but good-humored about the whole thing, "or Summer-chan was on Monday when she does her orders. The true answer shall, alas, remain a mystery. I don't suppose you'll be interested in taking some off our hands, would you, Octavia-chan?"

Octavia considered it for a beat.

And then shrugged. "I don't tend to turn down food," she said. "Even if Duke might end up complaining we could have made our own."

Or he could have, since Octavia was still at the 'chopping things and letting him do everything else' stage of cooking.

And it wasn't as if she'd be paying for it, anyway, and a container of the stuff was definitely making its way into her bag.

"Then you can just tell Duke-san," Shunsui offered with his crooked grin, "that this just frees up that much more time for...other things, neh ♥?"

"Yeah, like more fishing," Octavia deadpanned.

"Is that what you kids are calling it these days ♥?"

As if there could be any other response to that.

"What else would I call catching fish?" Octavia retorted.

(Yes, she knew what he was saying. Sometimes she preferred being a pain.)

Shunsui would gladly take her being a pain. At least being a pain was being...something. And something he could work with. Something familiar.

"Hopefully," he offered breezily, "a very good time ♥."

Octavia shrugged. "Well, fishing's nice," she drawled. "Should take my boat out solo more."

There was a small breath of appreciation for where that allowed the metaphor to go, and Shunsui shrugged a shoulder in kind, though his grin seemed to lessen its indifference.

"It does seem a shame," he observed, "to have such a lovely vessel tethered to one place for too long ♥."

A continuation of the metaphor? A new one entirely? A rare dip into the literal?

Maybe.

Octavia wasn't treating it as a metaphor, because Octavia was Octavia. That didn't mean she didn't hear it, though.

If an eye roll could seem muted, hers did.

"Never knew you'd be so invested in sailing."

Shunsui's grin and the accompanying shrug, the wave of his hand, was nonchalant, carelessly amused at being caught in the act of such an observation.

"I am a man of a great many interests and passions, Octavia-chan ♥," he said, "albeit some more than others."

Octavia shook her head like she was shaking something off. When she spoke again, her tone was a little different, less dry, more sincere.

"When have you been sailing last, anyway?" she asked. "I could..." Small shrug. "Take you around the island, sometime."

She had no idea whether that was something he'd even like. But she needed the practice.

"That rather defeats the purpose of solo," Shunsui pointed out, though his smile had softened, warmed, and was much better suited to what he said next rather than what he said at first, "but that sounds wonderful, Octavia-chan, I would be delighted ♥."

And whether or not sailing was something he'd even like didn't even factor into it.

"They're not mutually exclusive things, Shunsui," Octavia pointed out in turn, though her tone had softened some, too. "I can do both."

Shunsui was mildly tempted to counter that the very nature of solo and with another person made them pretty firmly mutually exclusive and it would be quite the feat to see her attempt to do them simultaniously, but he didn't, he was hardly going to tarnish what felt like an odd sort of victory in that moment. He just smiled, dipped his head a little to acquiesce the point to her.

"Either way," he said, "I'm looking forward to it, Octavia-chan ♥."

He'd just saved himself several moments of fruitless arguing, so that had been a good choice.

"Maybe next week," Octavia said, not knowing any plans she made beyond the next two days were about to probably be shaken up. "I guess we'll see."

Well. Shunsui Kyōraku knew how to pick his battles, and that fact had served him well for thousands of years...

"I guess we will ♥," he agreed easily.

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