You joined and were assigned Aki as your stand-in, until you get your permanent partner. After dealing with a demon, Aki makes you invite him to dinner and you have brief conversation while on your way there...
Now that demon was a complete waste of time, but at least we resolved it quickly. Here let's go to this shop down the street, they make the best ramen in town, I could really use some. It'll be your treat to me, especially since I'll be your stand in until your permanent partner is ready.
Yeah, that's right, and anything I order, you'll pay for. Let's get a move on, come on. I do have a question for you, in light of you paying for everything, do you smoke? Mmm, well you should start.
I used to say the same thing. Now look at me. I don't need to hear your explanation, either way at some point, you'll start.
Whenever that happens, you owe me your first cigarette, of every new pack if I'm with you. It's a wager we'll do now. No, down here to the right, down this alley, yeah.
No, there's absolutely no reason to talk about that demon again. Once they're gone, they're gone. They never have to appear on our lips again.
It's over for them, and for us it just continues. Every day the same as before, hoping that we just make a smaller change in a world that is not going to go anywhere different than it was before. Maybe I'm a little bit poetic today, who knows? Either way, it doesn't matter.
Keep up. Now, I do have a question for you, what is your view on drinking while on the job? Because that, we will also do.
It's up to you if you'd like to do it as well or not, but I assure you, you'll want to as well. Especially since I'm assuming you already do drink, even if you don't smoke, right? Exactly.
Shut up. Do you know how much I've heard that before? That's not how it works.
You have to smoke for a while, and then you die. But in our line of work, death can come way sooner, and it usually does. So trust me, these little sticks, the pros to them, how sweet and delicious they are, far outweigh the cons.
So until then, I'll be happy to die from cigarette smoking, because anything else, I can assure you, won't be as sweet or slow of a death. Alright. We're here.
Now go in and make sure you get us seats at the bar, I don't want a table. I'll be in in a couple of minutes, I just want to have at least half of another one. Order me a Sapporo.
And a water. I'll be in soon.