“Thanks…” Totally not awake. Just stares down at the pancakes. Puts down the toast and replaces it with a pancake. Pancake is now limply dangling out of his mouth.
…Well then. Pretty sure no good pancake will actually be able to last long like that…
“You’re welcome… though, I think someone might need some coffee as well…”
“I’m not cool. I’m hot. Lupin already claimed cool, but whatever.” A dismissive wave.
The knot relaxed and the fugitive grinned in appreciation. “I owe you. I owe you more than one, y’know. Cash in any time and I’ll see what I can do.” He turned to face the other and gave him an appreciative hug.
“A week was a lot worse than you’d think. Do YOU wanna be stuck in a 9-year-old’s body, constantly under supervision, going to a lower grade? You thought you were bored at school before…
Kid’s smile widened when the knot finally went away. And while he probably should have been expecting it, he still ended up blinking a few times in surprise at the hug, though it was only for a moment. After which, he gave a softer smile and returned the hug some. Not sure if he’d ever really need to call in the favour, but he’ll keep it in mind.
“I can’t even imagine school for that… though, it wouldn’t be too hard to get out of supervision normally. Tantei-kun seems to run off on his own often enough… But no. Being a smaller version of myself is bad enough, but being tantei-kun specifically I’d rather avoid more.”
“Hoooh… I needed that.” A happy sigh. “I like you. You‘re the cool Kaito. And you’re not a robot. That’s always a plus.”
At the mention of greyface magic not lasting too long, the fugitive snorted. “And that time I swapped bodies with Conan-kun, that wasn’t ‘too long’? A week, man. That was a week. And hey, thanks – we both know I’ll give ‘em back.” A wink.
Dimensional weirdness, whatever. Right now he was his own best company.
“I should hope so. And I’d also like to think all of us would be cool~”
The thief just smiled at the wink, making another short hum as he finished up the massaging. Funny that robots would be mentioned, though… Another of his selves kinda gave him the nickname of ‘robot-kun’, after mistaking him for one the first time they met…
“Besides that, a week’s not too bad… Could have always been longer. And doubt either of you two would have been happy if it had.”
“Stay inside? I can’t do that all the time though… Ed-san has a job that can keep her away from home, and I don’t have my lockpicking tools anymore. Any ‘inside’ places are going to be businesses.”
Ooh, right there… a knot riiiight there, it hurts but it’s a good hurt. Very good hurt. He does suck in a bit of air though.
“I just hope someone ends it soon.”
Kid hummed as he worked to loosen the knot, keeping the pressure firm, but not painfully so, as he works through it and up to the shoulders.
“It’ll probably be gone before you know it. That is one good thing about the grey face magic. It doesn’t normally last too long… But if you need tools, I don’t mind letting you use mine when you have to. You’re me, in a sense, so letting myself use them wouldn’t be much trouble.”
Just dimensional weirdness going on again, but that would happen when someone can already chat and give a parallel self company and back rubs.
“Ooh, man…” Yesssss. Back rubs are one of his weaknesses. Something his counterpart probably knows, since they’re still very similar.
He had to crane his neck to look at the other Kaito, another pop in his spine accompanying the movement. “Ye…ah. It’s been three days now. What a pain in the ass. Cats are almost impossible to avoid, there’s too many. At least fish are harder to passively find.”
“Ah… yeah. Doesn’t help when they’re on land with you and are popular to begin with…”
He’ll glance over and offer a sympathetic smile before focusing more on what he was doing, hands pausing in place to work on any knots he could find.
“Maybe stay inside as much as possible? At least then you only have to worry more about pictures… maybe the other magicked people if you’re unlucky?”
“I hope not. Ooh, that feels nice…” He rolls his shoulders, an audible pop making him wince. He’s not ticklish by the hips at least, so no squirming. “I appreciate this more than you might know.” So tense. Kaito’s been unable to relax for what feels like years.
“Wait, they can fix these hexes?”
The thief smiled and the scratching slowed as he started pressing his fingers in more, feeling and working his way along his counterpart’s back. He had a guess that the other might be a lot more tense than most, considering his current status…
“I’d assume so. Most probably don’t, but if one curse can cause the problem, there’s nothing to keep another from lifting or changing it. But they probably won’t be willing to do that anytime soon. So, like I said, it’d be more if it goes on too long type thing that I’d get help like that.“
“Thank you,” he whines, still keeping his head down. “This is bullshit. I wasn’t even given a time when this hex would wear off. What if it’s like this forever? I hate those grey magic casters. They’ve never done anything good to me.”
Kaito just sorta arches his back. Mm. That feels nice.
“It can’t last forever. And if it starts going on too long, then I might have to see about having one cast another to set it right. Even if they can be bad, you can’t say they aren’t convenient in accessibility~”
Going to keep the back scratching going, moving up from around the shoulders to just above the hips. After a thought, he might shift a bit so he can use both hands.
Just lying there. Not even gonna look up. This world is horrible.
At least it’s easier to hide his parts in the costume. The top hat is certainly nicer on ears than a baseball cap or something, anyway. It does have to suck to have the usual phobia changed to cats, though… A lot harder to avoid that one, even without the run of magic going around.
But he’s just going to run his fingers up and down his other self’s back in a light scratching to help comfort.
“Not like it’s our faults… Maybe Spider, since his started it, I think, but…” Ahaha…
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“Nice ears.”
“Only ‘nice’ half of the time, it feels like…”
He’s not as annoyed with them, or the tail, since he’s used to it, but he doesn’t need the surprises like them either, jeeze…
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