Happy Enough

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"Huh? So that's all that happened?" [Name] asked with dotted eyes, looking at the brunette next to her. He sat the other way round his chair, while she was sitting with her legs crossed on the side of her chair, unlike Kunikida, she was too lazy to move it and just used the back of the chair as a place to lean on.

They are now in the Vortex Cafe as schedules yesterday, Dazai having filled her in on how he found out about Atsushi being the were tiger and that Atsushi is now part of the agency.

"What do you mean that's all!? I thought I was going to die..." Poor boy had his soul leave him when he found himself on the fake bomb without knowing.

She turned to him, shrugging nonchalantly, "Well, compared to the entrance exam for my coworker.. it's a little underwhelming. Sorry sweetheart." An apologetic smile spread across her features, Atsushi almost blew a fuse at the nickname.

Well it was true, Aria quite litteraly almost died, one of the reasons she hates [Name] so much as her superior was the one who planned all of it, how pitiful.

Atsushi seemed to have realized something, "Oh, I don't even know your name yet." She quickly introduced herself upon realization.

"You don't work here?" She shook her head, "I'm from the Luminesced Detective Agency. I'm sure you've heard of it?" His eyes widened, remembering the rumors he heard before.

"I... I've heard that the agency has many individuals with abilities.. That you usually deal with cases from overseas... And.. " And that the Luminesced Detective Agency was full of monsters.

The woman quirked her head to the side in question, wondering why he trailed off, "And...?" Seeing intimidation in his eyes, she assured him, "Don't worry, don't worry, it's not like I'll eat you or anything. The Luminesced often works with The Armed too, I don't want you being terrified while working with us." The smile she sent him assured him more and he continued.

"Many said that your agency.. was full of monsters.." There was a brief silence, then [Name] stopped holding it in, and bursted out laughing along with the members of the Armed Detective Agency except for Kunikida.

Tears stuck out the corners of her eyes, "Wha- hahaha I- pfft, I-I'm sorry, sweetheart! It's just-" She tried her best to control her laughter but ended up coughing uncontrollably instead. Lucky for her, Dazai was there to catch her when she almost fell out of her chair.

After finally calming down, she wiped away her tears, "Pardon me, but where did you hear such a thing from, sweetheart?"

With a light blush dusted on his cheeks, he answered, "Well... I just happened to hear it from some strangers I passed by..." He recalled the other day he was still roaming the streets, three men talked about the Luminesced Detective Agency.

Her mouth formed an o shape, "Must've been some people we interrogated, if only they weren't so stingy, we wouldn't have needed to do that." She crossed her arms in a factual manner with a sigh, her face showing annoyance.

"If anything, anyone who walked out of that agency of yours would be traumatized. Speaking of that..." Kunikida turned to [Name] who looked at him curiously in return, "don't you have work today? What do you think your doing here lazying around?" But of course Kunikida would ask that despite not being in the same agency as her.

"For your information, today's my day off, mom. Take that." In return, she stuck her tongue at him. The weretiger sweatdropped while finding her action cute at the same time.

The blonde got up in her face and started yelling, "Who are you calling your mom!? Being committed to you work so you don't shame to your agency and the agency you work with is important!" In the midst of yelling, Atsushi thought of something and asked.