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WHO: Kiriko, Reizo.
WHAT: "Confession" is probably the wrong word.
WHEN: Weekend after Seiko dungeon, but before any investigatening occurs.
WHERE: Noodle Alley.
WHY: Had to happen eventually.

Kiriko wasn't nervous. She felt a lot of things - determined, eager, maybe a little aggressive – but not nervous. The feeling she had was the kind of thing she had come to associate with shadow confrontations in Paradise. It was kind of the same basic concept, really, when she thought about it - chat him up, wear him down, drag him home... or something along those lines, at least.

She’d texted him a while ago, and was now waiting at their designated meeting place. The set up had been that Kozue was busy and she needed someone to celebrate with, which was the best kind of lie on account of it being half true. Kozue wasn’t busy at all, but with her wallet finally full again, she was feeling quite celebratory. Living on her gratuitously reduced allowance hadn’t been as painful as she’d expected, but that didn’t mean it hadn’t been painful.

Noodle Alley was relatively busy (to be expected on a Saturday evening) and she’d taken to people watching while she waited. Comparing herself to girls that walked past was an old habit, but apparently one that died hard. She was satisfied with the results: a couple that could compete with her, probably none that could outright ‘beat’ her. Strangely, she didn’t take that much comfort in it – she already knew she looked good.

She’d come nicely dressed, but not conspicuously so, the only notable difference from her everyday wardrobe being that her hair had been twisted up into one of those artfully messy buns that was meant to look as though it took twenty seconds when it actually took at least ten minutes to get all the strands in the “wrong” place. She had the kitsune clip in, despite it being early in the rotation. Maybe a little unsubtle, but that was fine if it spared her words. The words part was the part she had yet to figure out yet, anyway.

She craned her neck, looking for a head above the crowd.