Down With The World

I Need To Be Youthfully Felt (Cause God I Never Felt Young)

"I can't believe it's so quiet... ", Arachne said to herself as she sipped her tea in the garden, stroking the corgi in her lap all the while. Tenko, who was sitting across from her sipping his own tea, nodded.

"I know. It's hard to believe it's just us in the house right now.", the young man concurred.

It had been a week since their time gardening together, and in that time, a lot had changed. Since they were starting to get cabin fever because they never left the house and had finally become fluent in English, the League all decided it was time for them to find something to do outside the manor with all their free time. Most of them chose to get jobs, partially to alleviate boredom, and partially to stop feeling like moochers who couldn't pull their own weight (not that Arachne thought they were like that, nevermind told them that). Dabi was working as a barista at a cafe in town under the alias 'Touya Himura', Twice had gotten a job as a mechanic, Atsuhiro decided to put his passion for fashion to good use and was now working at a tailor shop, Kurogiri was using his newly discovered persona of 'Oburo Shirakumo' to work as a bartender, and Himiko was now finishing up her education at the local highschool (and thankfully, had not stabbed anyone... yet). All of them were working

Even Spinner had gotten a job at a local karate dojo, working as an assistant sensei under a man who didn't care about his appearance or that he was a meta, and thankfully, his young students and their parents didn't seem to mind either. In fact, they thought he was cool, asking him all sorts of questions about what it was like to have scales or if he could really climb up walls, and not in the rude or invasive way he was usually asked those questions, either. Spinner said he'd never felt so comfortable in a normal work environment before.

Tenko was the only one that didn't get a job, mostly because he didn't really have any work experience and knew he would become a disaster the second he got overwhelmed by a crisis or a large group of people... and because he wanted to take the chance to spend more alone time with Arachne, but no one else needed to know that. Arachne continued to pet Constantine.

"Well, it'll be just you in the house soon enough. I've got some business to take care of in the Caribbean and won't be back for a few days.", Arachne informed him, and Tenko smiled at her teasingly.

"The Caribbean, huh? Sure you're not sneaking off to take a vacation without us?", Tenko asked playfully, and Arachne snorted at the suggestion.

"Trust me, where I'm going, vacationing is the last thing on anyone's mind.", the purple eyed woman said, a cryptic undertone in her voice. Tenko picked up on it, but let it go without much thought.

"That reminds me, what exactly do you do for a living? All I've seen you do is fill out paperwork in your office, make some phone calls and take a few business trips. That doesn't tell me a lot about your job, other than that it's boring and pays you a lot.", Tenko asked with genuine curiosity in his voice. Arachne laughed at his 'boring' comment.

"I wouldn't call what I do boring, but you're right. I haven't told you and the others a lot about my work, so let's fix that; the truth is I own a company. An international, multi-billion dollar company known as Fowle Enterprises, whose ownership has been passed down through the women in my family for generations. I am its most recent CEO.", Arachne revealed, and Tenko was left gaping at her. He had expected her to be a wealthy business employee, sure, but not an actual CEO! And sure as hell not the CEO of a company that was damn near two and a half centuries old!

"And you're just telling me all this now?! Me and the others have lived with you for over half a year, Arachne! How did you never think to bring this up before now?! Also, if you're so rich and important, why do you have no online profile?! I spend all my time I don't spend with you or the others online, and I've Googled you before! You barely exist! Since when does someone who's basically the cooler version of Jeff Bezos barely exist?!", Tenko screamed as he stood up and slammed his hands on the table, more out of shock than anger. Arachne frowned at his reaction, wondering if she had dropped too many bombshells at once, until she heard the Jeff Bezos comparison. Then she started cackling like a madwoman.