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[asano_san]

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I have an egg.

What am I supposed to do with it?

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[good_ideas]

[Shiho looks away from the egg to look back at him.]

Well... babies are supposed to hear their moms even while they’re in their stomachs. [ergo whatever is in the egg should therefore also be able to hear him.

And maybe her.]

...I’m just wondering what kind of egg this is. If you might get hurt if it hatches. [And she’d feel very guilty if he ended up injured because of this.]

[asano_san]

I'm wondering the same thing! I thought you were going to be able to tell me!

[Miss Supposed Egg Expert.]

[good_ideas]

Normally, I can! [Shiho turns to him fully now, eyebrows knit in a frown.] But there's something different about this one.

[asano_san]

And it's bad different, isn't it?

[He doesn't know why he's asking when the answer is so obvious.]

Why couldn't my reward be a nice, normal egg?

[good_ideas]

It might be. But it might also not be a bad thing. It's just... a powerful thing. [And as far as she's concerned, being powerful meant only that. It could be a benevolent creature?]

And maybe they thought you needed more excitement or something.

[asano_san]

Powerful things are usually bad things! [Keigo has a much different perspective.]

Have you been in the same town as me? There's no way anyone could think I needed more excitement!

[good_ideas]

They're not, you big coward. [Because that gets just a touch too close to what other people have told her before.]

And if you can't handle it, they're obviously going to give you more excitement until you can.

[asano_san]

I don't mind being a coward when it's about things everyone with sense would be scared of!

And I don't want to learn to handle it!

[So negative.]

[good_ideas]

They shouldn't be and you're going to learn. [And she's going to make him learn!]

[asano_san]

It's not like I have much choice.

[Whether it's Shiho or Chroma in general trying to teach him.]

[good_ideas]

That's true, you don't. [And would he be better for it?

Maybe.]

It's better to learn to get over your fears, after all.

[asano_san]

I'm keeping the egg and hatching it.

[Even if he's severely doubting this decision now.]

That counts as my lesson for now, right?

[good_ideas]

Becoming a dad? I guess. [Dads work pretty hard sometimes, after all.]

[asano_san]

Not just a dad. Probably a monster dad!

[Monster dads work the hardest of all. Or they die. It could go either way.]

[good_ideas]

Still a kind of dad. Who knows, you might even be good at it.

[asano_san]

Being a good monster dad had better not be my one accomplishment in life!

[good_ideas]

If you're good at it and survive, I doubt it'll be your only accomplishment. Or do you really have like... no skills other than being a dad?

[asano_san]

I have other skills! Like I'm friendly!

[Kaoru even called it his good point once.]

[good_ideas]

At best that would be a personality trait, not a skill. [Or so she says while being very unfriendly.]

[asano_san]

OK. My personality trait is friendliness and my skill is being the life of the party!

[If he can manage to get invited to those parties in the first place.]

[good_ideas]

...Are you writing a profile for a dating app? Are you going to tell me that you like long walks on the beach next?

[asano_san]

You were the one who said friendliness wasn't a skill! I was showing you how it was one!

[ . . . ]

Unless you want to go on a long walk on the beach.

[good_ideas]

Well, it's not.

And I don't want to unless you can guarantee that we'll find a murder weapon washed up on the shore.

[asano_san]

That's not the point of walking on the beach!

[good_ideas]

Of course it is? Why else would the two of us take a walk on the beach?