[open] And in the end I'd do it all again

[skullandcrassbones]

Alright, Alright, this was fine. This was cool. Just vibing in the velvet room. It wasn't like it was his first time or anything. Still felt strange being here though. The doors were a new addition. Not to mention the bulletin board. Which he had yet to make sense of the most he got was multiple Akechis and code names. That was... okay. He was getting good enough at handling very-much-not-dead Akechi back home. They weren't best friends by any means but he would like to think they were on the way to actually pretty solid friends. Most of that was because he convinced Ren to stay.

So, what he had pieced together was: This was a relatively safe place, there's multiple Akechis, and there's doors. What was he supposed to do with this information. He hadn't really explored anything without someone else there, and no it's not because he was afraid, like the cat would like to tease.

1) He was staying in the room gathering the willpower required to explore the outside. But for now he was trying to put together the bulletin board. Sure was a lot of words. Ren could be called Akira, okay, he's got that down. Akechis and Ren/Akiras were together a lot. With how much Ren fawned over him, it wasn't shocking. It was at this point he realized he should probably take notes. He pulled out his phone, surprised to find it kinda worked. "Alright!"

Now back to finding out what was going on. He was scanning it over trying to piece things together. He had expected red strings, but blue worked fine too. He was reading and taking notes fine up until a particular one. "For real?!" He shouted, the first real thing he said in a long minute. "Siblings?"

2)With the courage gathered he stepped into the fifth door, glad to see a version on Toyko he recognised. He traveled around, starting to notice the almost scripted way others interacted. Creepy. He decided to start with the place he knew best. Le blanc. He hoped there wasn't anything out of place, boss would kill if he knew it was. Okay maybe not.

He was just standing at the door, looking through the glass. His hand on the doorknob. He didn't think he'd run into Ren, or an Akira. He just kinda felt weird going in there and not knowing what to expect.

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[skullandcrassbones]

He smiled. He dug in, "Your cooking is so good," he spoke with his mouth still kind of full. "I'd marry you for this food alone." He hummed, still shoveling food in his mouth.

He had said the same thing to his Ren before. He got one hell of a glare from Akechi.

[unfoggedlotus]

"You're a little late to the party on that," Ren quips, flashing his ring finger. "The compliment to the chef is appreciated, though."

[skullandcrassbones]

His jaw dropped. "Holy fuck Ren!" He smiled so wide. "I'm so happy for you!" He ran around the counter to look at the ring closer.

[unfoggedlotus]

Ren...at first, something inside him flinches away at Ryuji running towards him. After a moment, though, he can't help himself but grin even wider and proudly show off his fancy piece of jewelry. "It's not official yet," he says, a little breathless. "It's more like...a pre-engagement. I still need to come up with a speech and something fancy to do...but yeah. We're committed."

With the design of the ring, it's not hard to figure out who, exactly, Ren is committed to.

[skullandcrassbones]

"Dude, that's amazing." He probably shouldn't have ran at him, but he was glad to see it ended up okay. "He better treat you good." Though with what he's said before he was sure his Akechi was just fine at that. "How did it happen? Tell me everything."

[unfoggedlotus]

"It was on Christmas day, actually," Ren grins, still feeling breathless. It's real, I'm telling someone about it, oh my god it's real. "We had a Christmas Eve getaway the night before. And then the rings were the first gift he had us unwrap. And...I cried."

[skullandcrassbones]

"Oh man, that's so nice! I'm so happy for you." He looked at his bestfriend so happy, he deserved to feel like this, he deserved to be this happy and this taken care of. "He does seem one for clichés though."