Shibuya Snapshots

Free Time

If the pacing seems way off towards the end that's because I'm tired and didn't wanna be late.

So they gather around the foosball table and start one of their regular tournaments and no one judges them. Free time is me time, after all.

-xXx-

Me time is free time, as they say. And Reapers have an abundance of them. And it is not common knowledge to know what any one Reaper would do in their free time. Though, there were guesses. Some accurate and others not so much.

Sho Minamimoto is a clear enigma, or outlier, as the lion would put it, out of all the Reapers. His power, intellect, and Player erasure rate are not to be challenged. And what one might assume the lion would do in his free time, calculations, lurking, vandalizing, creating one of his oh-so-famous art sculptures, and just being an all-around cryptid... would be absolutely correct.

Minamimoto isn't a social animal and views others as worthless trash if they didn't have any value. Not even worth enough to be considered for his art, just a completely different heap of trash that is brought up only by him.

The man lives how he wants. So when he works he calculates and in his free time he calculates the beauty that will lead him to his goal. Through the chaos, he finds his purpose. One would argue that he even lives for chaos.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, you have one Yodai Higashizawa. A giant man rivaled only by Shinjuku Reaper Kaich Susuki in size who has a kind heart. Well, kind is not the best way of putting it, considering the man's own Player erasure count, but he's kind enough to his coworkers.

But the man is all but passionate about cooking, and participates in many chef competitions in his free time. At least, in the rare few that are Reaper verified. The man had made a name for himself in the cooking scene back when he was alive, so catching the wrong attention could prove disastrous and could only be resolved in him being erased from existence entirely. Erased from memory.

It is mutually agreed upon between him and the ones in the know of his situation as a Reaper that this doesn't come into fruition, so they do their best to keep someone his size unknown. So when the man isn't competing, he is instructing one younger Reaper how to cook and bake.

His mentee? Coco Atarashi.

The small nineteen-year-old self-proclaimed fairy princess Reaper had requested that he teach her how to cook so that she could do it with her Reaper friend Tsugumi Matsunae whenever one would visit the other.

The man had been moved to near tears and taught her well.

So in Coco's own free time, when she wasn't searching for fairies, she was baking with her dearest most darlingest friend or wandering around Shibuya or Shinjuku with her, stopping by various different stores and complimenting them all.

On the rare occasion that Coco was alone and had free time, she spent tending to a Noise that she had randomly decided to take care of. A tapir was the Noise's form that she had stumbled across in an alley one day and had not had it in her to put the poor thing out of its misery. So she took care of it instead and quickly discovered its summoning ability when it let out a mysterious gas of some kind.

On occasion she would willingly get into altercations with Noise, purely to let off some steam from the violence of her two-sided personality. Noise quickly learned to stay out of her way, which was what eventually caused Coco to cool off and switch back to her sickeningly sweet personality in an instant and go on her merry way.

She unnerved many Reapers.

The group of Reapers' who were unnerved, but took it with a grain of salt was the UG's resident band: Def Märch.

The trio just shook it off and continued doing what they loved. If that brings them another fan (which it does. Coco and Tsugumi start regularly attending their concerts), then let it be so.

The three don't go after Players for a living and stick to just giving smaller missions to clear out the walls and keep track of who did what to help the higher-ups keep track of what teams have what points.

Instead, they write and create music and practice, pouring their hearts and Soul into every piece note, subconsciously Imprinting their fans without realizing. Not a bad or controlling imprinting, of course, just one that builds up excitement within those who hear it.

And one Koki Kariya enjoys watching the city grow. As a self-proclaimed stargazer, the city runs deep in his blood. He wanders around the town never without his endless supply of lollipops and people watches, mingling with the occasional restaurant owner.

At other times he's making bets with his Reapers partner, and Uzuki Yashiro loses way too much money to ramen bowls.

She aims to please as she always does. And as much as she absolutely hates doing nothing and not working to secure her continued existence as much as possible, she has learned to take breaks, too. It's more of a quick shopping trip and checking up on her co-workers, but hey. It's a break.

The only Reaper who seems to never take a break is the feared Iron Maiden. The tigress Mitsuki Konishi who asserts her power and dominance over others as a Reaper (only when they aren't doing their job, but the fear extends farther than that). She's a workaholic that, when not writing reports to hand over to the Conductor, is calculating her next moves carefully and strategically.

She always has something to do. Impressive, when compared to someone like Megumi Kitaniji, the current Conductor.

The man has lots of love in his heart that goes out towards the city and its citizens. He spends his afterlife serving the man who embodies its presence. But when he's not communicating with the admittedly sometimes infuriating Composer, he's pouring himself a nice drink or gliding along the streets of Shibuya with his headphones on, gentle music playing. He stops by in nice restaurants and bars, window shops in expensive stores, and does generally everything that the city allows him to do.

But like the other Reapers, he returns to the Dead God's Pad at the day's end. But the day is not over and there is still one last activity they do; a group one. They someone even rope Konishi into it, who has a surprisingly competitive spirit.

So they gather around the foosball table and start one of their regular tournaments and no one judges them. Free time is me time, after all.

-xXx-

Tomorrow *might* be a day late idk.