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[glossophobia]

🧙 WHO: Rosho and Rei (and later Sasara??)
⚔️️ WHAT: beating up an old man (I'm kidding) (or am I)
🕒 WHEN: sometime after this conversation
🗺️ WHERE: Phoenix Roost
⚠️ WARNINGS: prrrobably language and threats of violence... 🥴

[ Its been a long time since Rosho's stepped into the Roost. Not since Jyushi's birthday, he thinks, seeing as he never has a reason to come by. He's too busy with work to ever come to any of Sasara's shows. He also imagines it'd be too weird, standing there in the crowd, watching his former parther perform. It was always easier watching him on the television, because Sasara would never know, it was like he was right there with him again.

Rosho vaguely wonders if they have any security at all, as he makes his way to where he remembers Rei's office being. He's been running what he wants to do through his head since Sasara told him the truth about Rei. At first, those scenarios primarily involved beating the shit out of him.

Honestly, thats what most of those scenarios still are. But he has a general idea of what he wants to say now. Not that he can promise he'll only stick to words.

Hopefully, he can finish what he wants to do here before getting kicked out or anything.

Once he makes it to the office door, he waits to try and hear any movement or noise from the other side, wanting to make sure Rei isn't occupied with a guest in there. He doesn't want to get anyone else involved. When it seems clear, he knocks on the door, but doesn't say anything to give away who he is. ]

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[whosaysdajare]

[ It's sorta what he expects Rei to say; he might have been trying to keep that secret in the first place, but now that it's out it ain't like he'll just up and run, right? The truth is that he probably could have made his out even in this place, if he wanted to. Yet, waiting like that, it'll just have to be this way— ]

Rosho...?

[ Sasara's head whips around to him. After breaking down, all but falling to his knees and admitting not just his own secrecy but his helplessness in the matter, after finding Rosho ready to knock Rei's lights out, he doesn't expect to find any mercy on his partner's end. ]

What're you saying!? [ The words just burst out after pause and silence. More than offended, Sasara's stunned, his response a reflex. ] You really...

[ The truth is, Sasara didn't confide in Rosho only for his partner to shoulder that burden, once again, of splitting them up. When he'd confessed that he needed help, he still thought it'd be to do something just like that. However, relying on someone else, it doesn't mean having them make your choices for you, but making their own; doing something that you couldn't have.

Sasara thought it was over. His words, unsaid, bob in his throat. ] You really think so? [ "And thats all that matters to me. Getting to the top." He's sorta in awe. That's why it takes him another moment longer to look back at Rei again. ]

Old man, there's no forgetting what ya said– [ But— ] —still, I had my part in it. Some things, they better stay secret, [ A quiet admission. Maybe this is about Ichiro, too. It's just... to say that in front of Rosho; not without the next part, though, anyway. ] but, ya don't always know about that 'til it's out. Like Rosho said, [ Trusting won't be easy now. Between all three of them, though. ] it ain't just us, you too.

Rei... [ Mhm. ] If ya got some score to settle with Chuuo-ku, I don't suppose you'll be able to pull it off on your own.

[groundzeroes]

...

[Rei is expressionless for a while longer. Inwardly, he's... well.

Rosho, with his faith and hope in the face of great odds. Sasara, with his desperate need for other people, despite everything. Standing here, a united front, challenging him.

Maybe... Maybe he's been underestimating them.

Eventually Rei sighs, tension seeping out.]

You two are as stubborn as ever. [Breaking eye contact Rei turns and bends down to pick up the toppled bird perch, setting it upright.]

But... [He stays turned away, hands on the perch.] I can work with that.

[glossophobia]

[ It feels ridiculous for him to be the one having to put all this effort to reuniting this broken team, when it hadn't been that long ago that Rosho had been furiously declining Sasara's offer to become his partner again. But now he's carrying this burden, just like the rest of them are, their secrets and their weaknesses, and he's going to continue to do so until they win the second DRB. That's their mission. That's their sole purpose. And Rosho doesn't intend to quit now that he's in such high spirits. The sky's the limit for the three of them. Even if he's the sort of person that thinks more with his heart than his head sometimes, there's nothing wrong with that, right?

He looks to Sasara for a moment as he stares at him in shock, and he hopes he sees something in his partner now that Rosho wasn't ever able to see in himself until recently: something to aim towards, something to look forward to, something to believe in. Thats what he wants to be. It was only when they all came together like this that Rosho realized he too, could do something like that for others, including himself. Even in the face of adversity. Nothing is impossible. Everyone gets a chance. ]

Ya can 'cause you've gotta from now on. There's no backing out for any of us.

[ Rosho gives Sasara a firm pat on the back and the flicker of a bright smile before his expression hardens at Rei. ]

Seriously, all that time investigating us and ya somehow couldn't figure out this'd happen? Some "Mastermind" ya are. You're stupid! The both of ya. The two of you better learn your lesson from all this. But, I'll teach ya a hundred times if I've gotta, what it means to be a part of this team.

[ Rosho punches a fist into an open palm as a clear threat. Whether it be talking sense into them or knocking it through their skulls, he'll do absolutely whatever it takes to keep them working as a team together. He's done feeling like he's the weakest link of the group. They've given him confidence and faith in himself, so now he's going to return the favor for all of them, no matter what.

(I mean, they're called "Dotsuitare Hompo" for a reason I guess...) ]