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Don’t be fooled by the size of the bottles, they were decently heavy and would definitely make his hands hurt after the 4th run.
“Well, I uess-gay I’m getting compensated..” Gen grabbed his own bottles and set them aside to a different corner of the table.
Also..what.? A thought snapped in gens mind. CHROME setting and making a heating pad for GEN of all people? That’s extremely confusing.
“You know I am curious how chrome made the heating pad! I know it has something to do with a chemical reaction, I learn that much in middle school but..”
“Oh, I made Thoes heating pads. Chrome found you in the room and immediately came to me worried sick.”
“OH! Why thank you dear Senku-Chan! I must say how flattered I am!”
“Yeah yeah, cut the dramatics. But I mixed iron powder,vermiculite,activated carbon, and salt as a catalyst plus some water. Put that in an air-preamble fabric and as that iron rust and reacts it lets off heat! I would give you the full details but your trying to evaded work. So get to work mentalist and hand the cough drops to people.”
Gen felt like he could actually follow through on some of that but he really didn’t want to stay for the full lecture so he said his farewells and went to do brutal work.
Woe is him
But Gen anyway Gen began passing out the cough drops to people yet.
It was all so…
Boring.
Gen has always been someone who hated boring interactions. Gen loved using his skills to work and picking apart things, he was the one kid in class still reading the class books and decoding how the character felt via small actions and movements written down. It was literally his field of work.
But when people aren’t hard to decode or aren’t “amusing” as Gen puts it in his head things get boring. Why would he want to interact with someone who is easy to understand 10 billion percent of the time and are so straight forward it’s plan boring.
An example would be Senku. He is straight forward but he is far from being boring since he actually jokes around and pokes fun at things in a unique way that is so “Senku like” and makes work easier to deal with or just makes regular conversation pleasant but having a modern sense of humor and elements.
And he isn’t straightforward all the time to!
Like for example he tends to be bad at communicating emotionally and verbally. He cares but you can’t tell sometimes since he doesn’t show it well.
He was the type of person Gen liked being around honestly he was very found of senku. He was interesting in a way you rarely saw in the entertainment industry, most of the time you see people acting like they care when they really want money or fame when there in a corner.
Only people who had a huge advantage were able to act truly selfish yet Senku was so unique.
No matter if he had the advantage or not he acted like he didn’t care about anyone when he clearly does care.
A little different from the way Gen acts selfish but it’s so fun just hanging out with him because of that. He was so uniquely talented and has such an interesting personality that it’s fun being around him.
Huh? That’s an awful lot to think of someone isn’t it?
Yea Gen really can’t wait for humanity to revive so whatever feelings he has towards Senku burn out quickly once humanity is revived again.
Gen is sure it’s just his brain seeking someone who he has stuff in common with him in an environment he is not used to. That’s how human brains work we use patterns we know and like the options we’re able to recognize the most.
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The Next Day-
Gen had stayed up late to give everyone the cough drops but it was finished! He was finally free from that burden and all he had to do now was hope that senku didn’t have any more brutal task to torture Gen with.
He got dressed and started cleaning up his sleeping area since it had gotten quite messy.
The real torture in living here was the people moving in and out of the house.
Because chrome had all his ores and minerals inside the house there is a lot of back and forth on busy days.
Gen couldn’t go a hour without hearing someone come in and make a bunch of noise trying to find something for chrome and senku.
“Hey Gen do you know where the rest of the iron is?” Chrome asked
“Dear chrome, I’m afraid I would have a better chance re-making the Mona Lisa then trying to find iron in that hell storm of a rock collection.”
“The Mona Lisa?”
“Ah-never mind it’s just a super famous painting from my time made by a talented artist so it’s seen as incredibly difficult to recreate it. I’m basically saying it’s impossible for me to find iron in that rock collection you have.”
“Oh- okay. Well could u ask Senku later since he had the iron last for some reason.”
“Sure chrome.”
Gen felt the awkwardness in his bones.
This is why he hates situations like this since it’s so awkward having to explain a joke that would have been common place in the modern world.
Gen felt a headache coming along and wanted to stay in bed so badly..Senku was probably too busy to notice him slaking off.
He settled back in bed for a quick nap.