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" Agent Lang? could you send a message to Kay? She left her wallet with me and my phone died."
Edgeworth says to Agent Lang that was resting on his comfortable velvet sofa after he had just completed a mission this morning.
"mm? okay." He reached into his pocket to pull out his phone. It has cracks all over, hell, some of the screen pieces are not in place. Even the phone is somehow bent? He pressed the power button.
There was no power.
He presses it again, longer.
There was no power.
Edgeworth raised an eyebrow. " Agent. This is going to be the 6th time you broke your phone." Lang threw the now useless phone on the ground, making it an ugly contrast between the soft fur carpet and the phone. Lang grumbles. "Its just a phone anyways"
Edgeworth looked at him in disbelief, he's been buying six expensive phones and broke them all during his mission, how come Lang isn't worried about it?
At that right moment, Kay walked in Edgeworth's office
"Hey dingus i think i left my wallet here. Oh hi Agent and tha—..."
Kay looked down, squatted and picked up the phone. holding it in between her thumb and index finger. "Agent Lang?? this is the sixth phone you bought! Not to mention, its the latest model too!"
"He can't appreciate his items properly" Edgeworth added a comment.
"I'll just buy a new one later." Lang picked his ears
"..." Edgeworth and Kay both stared at him.
Kay quipped, " Okay then take me with you. I'm taking you to get a really good phone case."
"Oh is it Wrightcase.Co?" Edgeworth beamed at the mention of his lover's store.
"Oh yeah it is, My friend works there." Kay quipped.
"Well working hours are over now, I'll join, get in my car" Edgeworth offered as he handed Kay his carkey.
Lang grinned and that didn't escape Edgeworth's peripheral vision. "No funny business Agent. Im driving." Lang grumbles as he leaves the office with Kay "...fine"
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After buying a new phone for Lang, They are now going to Wrightcase.Co which is situated on the opposite side of the phone shop across the street.
"Did you see that cashier earlier? he even recognised you given the amount of time you always went to buy a new phone." teased Kay as she looked down into her shopping bag, "This PS5 has never looked this good until its in my hands! Hard work!"
"mm, don't go slacking off now that you've got that." Edgeworth chuckled, now in a good mood as he is going to meet a man named Wright.. "I won't, I won't, as long as Agent Lang doesn't go and breaks his phone again"
Lang sideeyed Kay at his name being mentioned, he ruffled her hair.
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As Edgeworth pushed the door into Wright's store, the doorbell chimes pleasantly.
"Welcome to Wrightcase.co! how may we help you!'
"Trucy!" Kay went and hugged Trucy, who is also hugging back.
After parting from the hug, Edgeworth cleared his throat. "Trucy dear, where's your father?"
"Oh hey papa! you didn't say you were coming, he's taking a nap upstairs, you can go and see him" Trucy smiled at him. Edgeworth nodded and went away. Lang raised his eyebrows.
Kay realised that Lang was here and piped up. "Oh right! we're here to get a phonecase for This guy" she points at Lang. Trucy, eyes now on Lang, she is very shaken by his size and the scowl on his face. She thought her papa was the scariest man, but this man is even scarier!!
"Ah! A phonecase? Follow me" Trucy leads him to a door that says 'WORKSHOP'. "There, you will make your own phonecase with the help of our family friend. Food and drinks are prepared there, *she points* if you ever get thirsty or in need of a snack, just grab some, okay?." Trucy sighed, she had said all that in one breath. Lang nodded and turnt to Kay. "Why would you bring me to make my own phonecase when i can just buy one?"
Kay laughed, "Oh come on its really durable and you should relax and unwind sometimes you know that? Go ahead go in! I'll pay for you!" Kay nudged his back.
Lang grumbled a 'fine' under his breath and opened the 'WORKSHOP' door.
The scent of jasmine instantly enveloped him, the gentle piano music blended with a soft humming to it. A woman was sitting on one of the table, playing with a snake wrapped around her hand. The woman looked up and immediately stood up to put her pet snake in a cage that has a nametag: ' Dahlia ' .
" Hello! Welcome to Wrightcase.co workshop! please take a seat on any table you'd like yes?, ill be attending to you shortly okay?" The lady had went inside the tiny 'authorised personnel' door.
Lang chose to sit a bit further from the snake. It scares him somewhat.
The lady came back with a file and two cute pens, she sits on the opposite side of Lang.
"First time here i assume?"
Lang nodded with his arms crossed in front of his chest.
The lady handed him a pen that has a cute lion on the top of it, seemingly to match with the cute cow on the pen that the lady is holding.
She smiled at him, " A gift from Wrightcase.co"
"Can i have your name? Mr...?"
"Lang. Shi Long Lang."
"And im Iris or Ayame, which ever one you prefer. Just drop the formalities with me and be comfortable okay Mr Lang?"
"Then just call me Lang too"
"Alright Lang, The workshop duration will be more than 30 minutes, are you alright with that or do you want it lesser?"
Lang looked around, the cozy atmosphere really makes it hard to not stay.
"Sure."
"What size of apron do you think you could fit?" Lang thought for a moment. His thoughts interrupted by Iris who bought aprons of all sizes. "On second thought, lets test that out."
She came back holding apron of different sizes.
"I think..." She shuffled thorough the aprons. "Maybe this" she pulled out a large sized and handed it to Lang.
Lang opened the apron, it had the imagery of a cute wolf carrying three baby piglets on it's back.
Lang tried it on, it had fit him perfectly. he looked up to see a well-expecting Iris already wearing an apron which had a cute white swan drawing on it.
"Perfect, now since you're the last customer for today, i supposed i could be more lenient in this, so come, lets go into the storage room and pick out your materials okay?" Iris says almost like guiding a child.
"okay." Lang had followed her obediently. ' it's oddly nice' he thinks, he felt like he's back in kindergarten
"here, is the section of picking your phonecase colour, clear case would be nice but overtime it'll stain to yellow, my best recommendation for you would be that grey resin. Lang, what model is your phone again ?" Iris asked him in a gentle tone.
Lang pulled out his phone and showed it to her.
"Ah that one, okay over here." she walked two steps in front.
Lang surveyed the multiple colour option. but he chose the grey resin that Iris had recommended. he wasn't really experienced in the field of colour theory or whatever.
" Next for the dough, just pick what colour you want okay? ill take the necessary ones." She says as she picked up four white piping bags filled with the dough.
Lang looked at the options. he took colour that he liked the most. glossy black and shimmering gold.
"Great taste, Lets go back to our table?" Iris smiled at him.
Lang's heart skips a beat, 'huh?' he shook his head, now looking at Iris who is looking at him with her head tilted.
"what's wrong Lang?"
Maybe he hadn't slept around in a while, those womens were a tad bit annoying and a hassle to deal with, whatnot some of them carried diseases and always expecting aftercare. Right, maybe it was that.
"It's nothing, let's go back." Lang reassured Iris.
They head back to their table and Iris placed his grey resin phone case in front of him, and a clear phonecase infront of her.
" So lang, what i want you to do first is , pick some charms that you want to put on your phone later on, okay?" She then gripped the vase thats on the table and lifted it up, surprisingly revealing a compartment that takes up half of the table, not affecting their space. It was filled with multiple charms, ranges from cute fluffy ones to emo edgy ones. Naturally, Lang eyed the ones that have a metal accent to it.
"You can take how ever many as you like, as long as it fits on your phone okay?"
Lang nodded and said, "Okay" and reaching in to pick his.
he only took out two from the silver tinged categories and says to Iris. " Im done"
Iris looked at his choices, a long dragon with chains hanging on it and a wolf insignia.
"Mmm... too much silver no?" Iris giggled
Iris then grabbed a golden iris flower from the bunch and showed it to him.
"What about this? it'll contrast and pop out nicer with your gold dough."
Lang blinked, it really did looked much nicer, even if its a flower. "I'll take it."
Iris smiled at him. "Great, now we can start the piping process." Iris first demonstrated on how to do it, with Lang watching intently, he's confident that he could it.
"Then i trust you, what don't you try?" Iris coaded him.
Lang tries. He squeezed the piping bag a little too hard and it let out a fat blob for the first one.
Iris giggles, "Its okay, try again" she says as she wiped away the blob.
Lang huffed and tries again. This time he squeezed it gentler but the lines coming out were thin and narrow, he squeezed harder, but he was holding the lower part of the piping bag, causing the dough to come out the opposite way.
Iris giggled
"Dont laugh at me" Lang huffed.
"Im not, *She chuckled* can i hold you?"
Lang looked up at her, his brain short circuited. "A-ah? yes?"
Iris got up and went behind Lang that was sitting down, she wiped his hands and grabbed a new piping bag, now making Lang hold it, with both of her hand clasping Lang's and guiding him.
"You have to be patient and do it slowly, like this." The dough can out smoothly and looked beautiful on Lang's phonecase. several pumps went out smoothly and Iris smiled. "Yes perfect just like that."
Lang's heart was ... beating so hard? how could a hand be this soft? and its enveloping his too. He could smell the concentration of jasmine was stronger on her, and her soft voice is also right next to his ears, the words praising him. He feels his blood rushing to his ears and cheeks, emanating heat.
"And one last one you can do this Lang." The white dough had already filled the inner tiny center of the phonecase.
"Perfect!"
Iris looked to her side, revealing a Lang with very red ears and cheeks. She chuckled, "What colour do you want it to be surrounded with?"
Lang cleared his throat, trying to hid his flushness. "Black and gold."
"Which one goes first, black?"
"Gold first...please?" Lang looked at her while holding the gold piping bag.
Iris nodded and smiled, " Sure, do you think you could do it alone or should i help?"
Lang grinned in his head, this was a chance.
"I still dont get how to pump it"
Iris chuckled, "It's okay, I'm here for you."
Those words, even if its in a phonecase customisation context, those are the words he really wanted to hear this whole time. Those time where he was in a critical state while completing a mission, sitting in a desolate area, he had wanted to hear those words. Or when his parents died, leaving him alone, he wanted to hear those words. And it unexpectedly came out of this girl, in front of him.
Lang looked at her and had let out a genuine smile and a chuckle.
"Sure."
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They had continued piping the rest of the colours together until the phonecase was filled. Lang was a bit disappointed when Iris had to let go and sat back on her chair.
"Now you can put the charms on and gently push them down okay? but not too much. just like this" She says as she demos putting a charm on her tiny blob on the parchment paper.
Lang followed her. Putting the wolf insignia on the right bottom of his case, the dragon chain ones on left top, and the golden iris pin in the middle.
Lang had let out a whistle, it was a lot of work and was very eye pleasing. He took off his apron and handed it to Iris since it was getting stuffy.
"Good job! now im going to put it under a uv machine to let it dry and you can just relax here, grab some food outside or pick it up tommorow which would you prefer?"
"I—"
As Lang was about to answer, a man with sharp hair opens the door. "Ah Iris, you're not going home yet? it's past closing hours already, or are you sleeping here?"
"Ah no im not sleeping here, its fine ill go home later." Iris secretly winked to Phoenix, indicating she was indeed going to sleep here, but she couldn't just reveal that info to the customer , Lang, that she had just met.
"mm okay then I'll leave the store closing to you" Phoenix smiled and then looked at Lang. "Miles told me that he already asked someone from interpol to bring your car here, we'll be leaving with Kay and Trucy, I trust you to take care of Iris since you're an agent" Phoenix narrowed his eyes at him suspiciously
Lang laughed, " I will, no worries."
Phoenix left and closed the door.
"An agent, huh?" A voice came from near the uv light machine.
"I am, almost everyone calls me Agent Lang"
a pause.
"Except you."
Iris lets out a soft laugh, "What an honor, i should use it to the fullest, hm? Lang?"
Lang smiled as he sipped on his water that was prepared earlier. "mn."
"Lang, could you wait here for a while since you're not going home i assume? i need to pack up a little bit outside the workshop."
Lang nodded and the door closed with a clack.
It's strange really, he's very tamed under the watch of this little lady, where had his shameless self went? It's almost like having a class clown under the watch of their parents. He smiled to himself, it's nice really, once a while he gets to lower his defense without having his guard on.
Soon after, Iris came back in again with some assortments of rice crackers and sweet fruits with two fork.
"Ive cleaned up everything and these are the leftover foods, care to share with me?"
Lang sat straight and Iris puts down the plate on the table, sitting down opposite of Lang and handing him a cute strawberry fork.
Iris poked her fork into a honeydew cube and bit into it while Lang poked into a dragon fruit cube.
"Its weird." Iris started.
Lang looked up at her, mouth full and a wondering eye.
"I feel like i oddly know you. you know, have we met before?"
Lang paused his chewing to think. "Not that I've remembered, no."
Iris thought for a while and clapped, startling Lang. "You were in a critical condition! Nearing death! i had to do an emergency operation on you."
Lang widens his eyes. This girl in front of her, was a surgeon?
"Its your turn to be surprised now, surprised?" Iris giggled at him.
"Well you did surprise me little lady, aren't all surgeons are like really busy and you are even working here?"
"Oh no i dont work here, i just take Maya's, my cousin, night shift here just so i could play with Dahlia, my snake. Wrightcase.co is like a family friend to me and it's pretty relaxing here."
Lang nodded, hearing her story. Its interesting.
"It's really is nice, even the fruits are sweet here."
"Oh you like it? i grew them back in Hazakurain temple, when i was a nun."
Lang raised his eyebrows, now the woman infront of her was seemingly capable of everything, surprising him with every little detail.
Alright enough of Little bitch Lang. He was sure, in his mind's eye and even his own head and heart merged together, he wants her. There is nothing to be at lost here. Besides that, he's also at an marriageable age and even not many candidates suit his taste. His uncle tried to pair him with girls of high status but they end up being lazy and very entitled, only caring about the type of guy they want, and not themselves. But this woman in front of him, is almost like a ruby infront of a crow.
He leaned back and remembered all the tips to look charming and the parts where he looked the most handsome.
He rolled up his sleeves, revealing his forearms while chuckling," You're like Mary Sue aren't you? Little lady Iris? won't you tell me all about you?" showing his shiny teeth through his grin while slicking his hair back.
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"A-all—?" Iris swallowed. "All of it—?"
The view infront of her made her throat dry, whatnot with the soft light from the moon casting a glow on him. It's almost like, as if he was an angel.
Her heart was beating, getting faster by the second. How was a rolled up sleeve from a man could easily make her heart beat?? Phoenix does it all the time but it seemingly to only affect his boyfriend. Iris averted her gaze away from the—now realizing—handsome large man thats infront of her.
"I dont see why not?" Lang says as he picked up a watermelon and crunched on it.
"I—?",Iris pauses, she shouldn't be easily swayed by a handsome man to tell her whole life story to, at least take her out on a date first!
Iris narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms in front of her. "Agent Lang are you trying to extract some information out of me ??"
Lang barked out a laugh, "thought we dropped the formalities? but no, i just want to know you better. After all you saved my life. he pointed to his stomach.
Iris' shoulder loosen up as he says that, she giggled, "well aren't you a sweet man? shouldn't you go home? your wife would be wondering where are you." Iris stood up to go to the uv light machine.
a pause.
"A...wife?" Lang tilted his head in confusion
"..."
"Y-you— you look like a father of 4!" Iris huffed in embarrassment.
Lang barked out a laugh. "Now little lady i dont look too old do i? Also I'm still single, how did i jump from that to suddenly having a family overnight."
"Who knows..." Iris sat back down, holding the now already packaged phonecase of Lang.
"Here, do you want to wear it immediately?"
"Yes."
The finished product was surprisingly similar to when he had finished piping it, except the dough was now really hard and tough like a turtle shell.
He had put it on his phone and spun the phone around, it really looked nice. Realising that Iris watched his every movement, he opened the 'phone' app and went to the keypad area. he them faced the phone to Iris and handed it to her.
Iris tilted her head. "?"
Lang looked really nonchalant now but only he knows how much his heart is beating just from watching her cuteness. He wants her.
"Your phone number."
"O-oh!" Iris grew red at this....very sly courting technique???? she grabbed the phone, knowing there's no backing out from this.
She pressed in her phone number and saved herself as 'Iris'.
"Iris, thanks, for the phonecase and company." Lang let out a satisfied grin, now looking at her saved contact and her gorgeous red face.
Iris nodded and looked at the plate.
'???? when did he finish all of the fruits???'
"What time do you get off work tomorrow?" Lang stood up, ready to leave.
" Around 5pm, why?"
Lang ignored her until he reached the door and twisted the knob.
"I'm taking you out on a date, Little Lady Ayame."
Lang closed the door, leaving behind a very embarrassed and flustered Iris.
"Y-you—! you don't even know if im going to say yes or no!" Iris pouted and sat on the ground, covering her red face with her hands. "T-this ... is my first time getting asked out...."
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In his bed, Lang scrambled for his phone, searching for 'Miles Edgeworth. Prosecutor's contact.
Thinking of what he's going to say, he typed.
S.L.L: Hey Grump, Can u ask something 2 that hedgehog bf of urs.
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After a passionate lovemaking session, Phoenix and Miles are now cuddling with one another, basking in the afterglow. And Miles is now sleeping in the other's warm embrace despite wrecking Phoenix earlier.
And a notification came from Edgeworth's phone. Phoenix knew that Edgeworth always set his phone silent except for important people, so he grabbed the phone, unlocked it and answered Lang's message.
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M.E (P.W): Hedgehog bf here, what's the matter?
S.L.L: Do u know where Iris works at?
M.E (P.W): If she doesn't tell you then I'm sure she had her reason (?)
S.L.L: No, i just forgot to ask. I'm taking her out on a date tomorrow after her work shift.
M.E (P.W): Oh! then, she works at Armando Hospital.
S.L.L: Thank you, much appreciated.
M.E (P.W): and also, Athena told me that she didn't get much chance to have fun during her childhood
M.E (P.W): Athena is a psychologist. my student.
S.L.L: Thank you for the input sonic, i hope for you and Edgeworth for a very blissful marriage.
M.E (P.W) : If he ever proposes that is, also good luck on the date tomorrow, it's the first time she ever got asked out by a man.
S.L.L : Really?
M.E (P.W): :)
*S.L.L reacted with an 'okay' to that message.*
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Phoenix puts down the phone and nuzzles back into his future husband's soft grey hair. "I love you."
A few mumbles came from the man, "mmhn... m,,..mne..tu (me too)" and Phoenix was surprised he was able to reply in a knocked out state. his eyes softened and he hugged him even more securely, with lots of love in his heart to give to Miles Edgeworth.
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