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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]

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?

[asano_san]

[He knows better than to suggest romance.]

For the perfect mood.

[He does it anyway.]

[good_ideas]

Even if you just ruined any kind of mood by saying that?

[asano_san]

I know there wasn't any kind of mood to ruin right now.

[good_ideas]

So you are aware of stuff like that, huh?

[asano_san]

You'd never let me not be aware of it!

[good_ideas]

Well, yeah. [She says like this is all perfectly normal and not hurtful in the least.]

I don't want you to get the wrong idea.

[asano_san]

You could let me have the wrong idea for a few minutes.

[Would that be so hard?]

[good_ideas]

Living in a fantasy is a bad idea, you know? Save your wrong ideas for someone who will truly, completely appreciate them. Okay?

[asano_san]

No one will ever truly, completely appreciate them!

[good_ideas]

Someone will, some day. [And she thinks it isn't the end of the world if no one does. It's probably not the best thing to say to a teenage boy though.]

Somewhere. Maybe.

[asano_san]

How many new batches of people from the well will it take?

[As if this wasn't a problem for him in the fully populated, normal world.]

[good_ideas]

It could be the next one. Or the fiftieth one.

[But surely there will be one...?]