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“I’m not a big fan of overly sweet drinks, so I’ll pass, thanks.” Shoko tells the waitress offering her a drink, no, not just her, but to the rest of the Agency too.
She watches as the waitress makes her way towards Atsushi, and proceeds to offer the same drink to him next, he shyly takes it, trying to be polite.
Meanwhile, Ranpo seems to be happily sucking on the straw of his drink, and Shoko can’t help but wonder just how Ranpo hasn’t developed some sort of health complication from all of the sweets he eats.
She’s caught off guard as Dazai’s loud, rich voice hits her ears, as he makes way to purposely sit next to her.
“Shoko! I brought you a drink, since I know how much you dislike overly-sweet sugar infected drinks!” Dazai says in an annoyingly chipper tone of voice.
He’s got a smug smile on his face, as he places the drink on the table, in front of her.
The drink is rather large, and she can’t help but notice two straws neatly placed inside the glass.
“Agua de Jamaica?” Shoko asks Dazai, turning to face him.
“Yeah, yeah, Hibiscus Tea.” Dazai tells her, because of course they can’t seemingly agree to refer to the same things by the same name.
“Two straws? Why’s that?” Shoko asks him, amused.
“So we can share, of course!” Dazai tells her happily, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, which it in fact is.
“Oh, alright then, sure.” Shoko replies to Dazai with a shrug, open to the idea.
“Wonderful!” Dazai says, before pushing the drink a little closer to Shoko’s direction, “Come on, try it.”
“Fine.” Shoko says, before diving down and sipping on the straw.
She doesn’t miss the hungry look Dazai gives her.
Before she’s done, Dazai himself dives down to take a sip out of his own straw too, blatantly staring at her.
Atsushi lets out a somewhat choked out sound in the background.
Kunikida sputters out something along the lines of Dazai! Have some decency! We’re at a public restaurant for Christ’s sake…!”
Once he’s done sipping on his straw, Dazai lets out an obnoxiously loud whine towards Kunikida, and complains.
“You’re no fun, Kunikida-Kun! Can’t I share a drink with my lovely little Shoko here?” Dazai whines to Kunikida, highly offended.
Shoko can’t help but let out a snort at the interaction between the two, amused at how scandalized Kunikida is being, and at how Dazai is acting in response.