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On a plain unassuming and slightly sunny day, that’s when it happened.
No-one would have expected it, pathetic fallacy and all that. ‘Shocking things tend to happen on shocking days.’ sure.
But as the sun was finally covered by the clouds that had been absent for hours that sunny day, when the midnight rain that had been clouding the week had finally cleared up. And everyone thought that the unassuming and mostly boring day was finally over.
That’s when it happened.
The first real look inside of Yokohama in hundreds of years.
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“Is it on?”
🔴 | At the dump w/ my dog! first stream from our city!! (@^ w ^@)
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Dazai grinned as Chuuya sat back casually against the rusty grey shipping container behind them, clearly awaiting an answer, what a good dog!
Turning his head to look down, hah, at him with a performative sigh and a mock-frustrated tone he grumbled. “Mh-hmm… but no-one’th joined yet!”
Dazai sighs as he tilts his phone backwards once again to try and fit Chuuya's tiny form into the centre of the frame. He’s being so stubborn, it's like he was trying to be out of focus!
Any minute now, the links to this stream will be getting sent out. He had already told some of his subordinates to make hundreds of burner accounts weeks ago, so that shouldn't be a problem.
They needed to send links out because, well, no-one would see this if they didn’t.
One measly livestream, no matter the Yokohama background, wouldn't be found without at least a little bit of algorithmic persuasion. The first viewers would inevitably end up sharing it around anyway so the first links wouldn't really matter in the end.
And they, sadly, still had to be a little bit subtle about the Yokohama aspect, for now at least … he'd still probably show off a few slightly important landmarks in the distance, maybe he'd even angle the phone up for a few seconds and see if anyone can make out the dome at night.
Just enough for the smarter outsiders to piece it together. Assuming any of them were smart.
God, he hoped at least one of them was.
He glanced back to the phone.
Still no-one. Ugh.
Whatever, he could entertain himself until then.
Despite how dark it was, he looked past the phone and down, ha, at Chuuya, who stared back up at him with that wonderful, and very common thanks to himself, irritated face! Ah, how lovely, he was already on edge!
He thought about chucking the phone to, or at depending on how he felt, Chuuya, but Dazai knew he’d undoubtedly catch it and keep it out of his reach, and Dazai still wanted to be the cameraman for this.
Besides, if Chuuya was the cameraman then all eyes would be on him, and having those outsiders see the ‘state’ he’s in currently would be too much for them. They had to ease into it for now.
So instead he just pretended to throw the phone at him, which, much to his dismay, got no reaction out of him.
“Chibi…….why didn’t you try to catch it????” he groans in mock frustration.
Chuuya just rolls his eyes at him in response as he puts his hand out, rude.
Still, Dazai tossed him his lighter, call it a gift. Payback for all the heavy lifting Chuuya did on their last mission. Last mission meaning the mission they had just completed
He sighs dramatically as he shifts the phone around again. But finally he manages to get it to focus on Chuuya. Finally!
Nameless_L0ser1n4 joined the stream
Wow, what a potent name, their name definitely summed up his thoughts on whoever it was. At Least someone was here though.
“Chuuya~ we have our fir'tht viewer!” he said, trying his best not to gag at his own voice… ugh. Really, he could control his heartbeat but not his voice?
Sure, it might make him sound younger to any aspiring hero types watching... but that just made it even more gross. Still, it would probably work in their favor.
Either way, a viewer joining seemed to startle Chuuya out of whatever trance he was in, not that anyone would be able to tell if they weren't Dazai.
Only someone like Dazai would be able to notice the way Chuuya's fingers twitched slightly around his newly acquired lighter. Dazai was also the only one that could see the way Chuuyas lips curled slightly upwards at his pronunciation of ‘first’, so mean.
Either way, watching Chuuya hastily try and hide his lighter was funny enough to make up for it. That was his favourite little chain-smoker.
“Well Chuuya, aren’t you gonna th’ay th’omething to them?” He put a very practiced smile on his face from behind the phone, they had to seem more innocent than they actually were.
Obviously not too innocent, that would completely ruin the whole narrative they had to build.
They just couldn’t seem like murderers, not yet.
“Whatever Chuuya, th’o rude.” He waved his hand in front of the phone's camera in a mock sort of wave as he got ready to ‘improv’. “Hi there! Great to th’ee that th’omeone ha’th finally joined!” ugh.
Nameless_L0ser1n4 - hi.
Wow. This was going to be so fun