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[covenantal]

[ The nice thing about living with your twin is that your laptops can do double duty. That’s how this whole thing happens: they have one laptop facing them, webcam on as they stand in the middle of their living room, and the other laptop is on the table behind them. There’s a video playing on it that’s tough to see, but the twins aren’t watching it either.

What matters is the song that’s playing.

The looks on the twins’ faces are very serious as the song gets started. It takes only about fifteen seconds for the beat to really drop, and they hold perfectly still for that time. But once the music really gets going…

… so do the twins.

Like, the whole shebang. Hand motions over their heads, swinging their hips, it’s perfect. They do the spins, they have choreography, did they actually take the time to learn all of this?

(Of course they did.)

Then they come to the part of the song with the… spine twisting. You know. That spine twisting. Souji will stop because Yu stops, and they just kind of look at each other.

Then Souji … does it. Like, does it perfectly. It’s amazing. Who knew a human could defy all logic and anatomy like that?

Yu tries it…

… and it’s actually audible, the way his spine cracks. He’ll end up stumbling off camera, holding his back and wheeze-laughing to go collapse somewhere. Souji just looks back at the camera and immediately goes to turn it right off. ]

[ Five minutes later, this text accompanies the video. ]

Taking Yu to the hospital. One like = one prayer . Send gifts and flowers to dorm #211 please and thank you.

Comments

[browbeater]

neither do i.
anyway, see you got your phone fixed. hopefully your bad luck doesn't cause it to break again.

[tarotcards]

You mean your bad luck.

I took very good care of my phone until that unfortunate day.

[browbeater]

i've had about zero cases of bad luck since that day, i'll have you know. and i had very few bad days before then, nothing out of the ordinary for a normal person.

[this is a major lie. one that he knows he can get away with.]

[tarotcards]

Are you sure about that? Because one of us is right and that is definitely me.

[browbeater]

i'm sure.

your chi is all messed up, pal

[tarotcards]

Leave my chi out of this. It's trying its best.

[browbeater]

well, yeah. it can't exactly not do that.

[tarotcards]

What do you have against me, Mako?

Didn't I take you out for a good time with our carolling? Make a few good memories here and there?

[browbeater]

well... i think it's called friendship

[tarotcards]

This is a strange definition of friendship you have here.

[browbeater]

well, it's a good thing there are many definitions.

[tarotcards]

This is cruel and I'd like to revoke our friendship contract for violating the clause about being nice to your friends.

[browbeater]

i don't recall agreeing to that.

[tarotcards]

You've agreed to it against your will the moment you decided to be friends with Souji Narukami.

That's just how it is.