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YUYA SAKAKI UN: FUNDIRECTION

STATUS: Student Grade 9

ACCOLADES: (Here is a list of leading roles Yuya's has in school theater performances over the past two years, plus a glowing review of his familiar Odd-Eyes)

BIO: Hello! You can call me Yuya. I'm from Sendai, Japan. This is my second year in Daybreak Academy. I'm a Tamer, and Odd-Eyes is my familiar. He's the big red dragon that hangs out in the courtyards. He's friendly but he tries to steal food sometimes. I speak Japanese and English but not very good French. I'm also in the theater club. I'm in Lumiere 203. Let's be friends!

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[Kano is, tragically, not the only one who takes advantage of yuya's sense of responsibility to others.]

Did you have something to do with that one? [Yuya leans over the counter, folding his arms on it.] I think Arabica is the one a lot of coffee shops use?

[He pulls his phone out, typing the last one in to check the internet.] It sounds like Excelsa is more... flavorful? You're probably right it's better.

Not directly, surprisingly!! [ It's something he would make, yeah... ] It's what they say, right? Take advantage of what materials you have at hand, so that's what he did~

[ aka he killed and helped himself to some of the 500 crickets that were unleashed, which Kano supposes he should be grateful for, maybe!! but he really did want all those crickets alive.

Too bad, but it's in the past now, so he picks up one of the Excelsa bags. ]

Alright~ We're going to drink like kings tonight, Yu~ya!

All right! [Yuya leans off the counter.] So where are we celebrating?

[He just assumes Kano has a plan for brewing the coffee without Ren's equipment.]

Hm, hm~ Chances are, you won't remember after tonight, so how 'bout this? Something of a club house~ What do you think?

Why wouldn't I remember...? [He leans in with interest, though.] There's a clubhouse?

Because you're going to be blackout drunk~ I'll show you the club house when it's time~ Can I get you to brew up the coffee downstairs in the kitchen? I'll take care of the alcohol~

[ Microwave hot water or something, he doesn't know how to make coffee. It's up to you and Google, Yuya...!! ]

[Yuya is severely underestimating what binge drinking is gonna end up like.

Still, he takes the coffee with a nod. He'll probably just borrow the kitchen's coffee maker instead of Ren's personal one.]

Okay. You'll find me down there?

Mmhm~ I'll come find you! The pink ones are your preference, right? I'll get lots of them, and meet you back downstairs in an hour~ Keep the coffee hot for me! Brew it strong!!

[ He has to go all the way to town for these, I guess, and haul it all back. He's also dead tired bc he has to power through this without coffee, but he's powered through worse and on less.

BRB!!! ]

[Yuya gives Kano a mock salute and waves him off before heading downstairs. His task is probably just shorter, so he'll be waiting with a pot of coffee and a container of cream and sugar each, in case Kano wants those. And mugs, all collected onto a tray.]

[ An hour is the estimate that Kano gives, but he eventually gets back to the dorm, carrying what looks like a large potted cactus in his hands- that jingles with glass clanging against one another when he lifts it triumphantly and gives it a shake when he sees Yuya. It's the alcohol, though currently disguised, because obviously nobody will question Kano walking around with a cactus. ]

Alright, here we are~ It's a bit of a trek, so are you alright balancing that by yourself? We're going back up~

[Is it telling that people would think less of Kano carrying a cactus than alcohol that he's technically legal for in France.]

Mm, I've got it! [Yuya balances the tray in his hands before starting to walk carefully.] I'll follow your lead!

[ lmfao yes. but also, alcohol's crazy expensive, probably, and there is no way Kano paid real money for all these bottles. He hugs the bag of bottles to his chest, though, before bounding up the stairs to the second floor. The third. Fourth. The roof. It's the rooftop.

BUT DON'T WORRY, THERE'S A RAILING NOW, IT'LL BE FINE. ]

[Yuya looks over his shoulder as they ascend to the rooftop. Just to make sure nobody's noticing them. He braces himself against the cold and looks around.] Up here?

Yep, up here~ Over here actually~

[ He sets his cactus onto the ground and wanders over towards one of the steam vents, crouching down in front of it and fiddles with something on the ground. And- like the cactus turning into a shopping bag full of various fruity spirits, a little storage shed pops into existence, as if an invisible veil had been cast over it and then lifted. ]

Ta-da~! Come on, let's get out of the cold~

[ He grabs his bottles and holds the door open for Yuya to get inside. ]

Whoa! [Yuya grins, barely stopping himself from rushing over when he's carrying coffee.

Instead he makes the slow walk, ducking in before finding a spot he can set the tray down.] This is really cool. You made it?

[ Kano laughs, but it's tinged with pride, self-assured because this was the one place he made for himself and it's been just his for so long. ]

That's right~ A place to hang out~ Cool, huh?

[ Before this, he didn't have anybody to hang out with. But if Yuya looks around, it's a bit strange: there's nothing here. Yuya can set the tray down literally anywhere, because wall to wall it's empty— but there's so many signs of things having been here, stains on the floor and nails left bent in the walls, dust in straight edges giving away where boxes must have been pushed up against the walls and stacked. This place used to be full, but it's empty, now.

Kano, for his part, says nothing about this, setting the bottles right on the center of the floor and then pulling a candlestick out of his pocket, along with a lighter to light the candle. ]

It's great! [Yuya looks around, squinting his eyes in the dark when he sets the tray down. He wonders about what it used to hold--it was a storage closet for the school, wasn't it?]

You could make it a real clubhouse, with chairs and snacks. I wonder if there's a wall socket...

[He sits down, looking to Kano as he starts pouring one of the mugs with coffee.] Candlelight too?

It's gotta be candlelight 'cause there's no electricity~ Unfortunately, I don't know enough about wires to divert some up here!

[ So, it's just a hidden storage shed, walls of wood and not the best place to leave a burning candle, but Kano will supervise and make sure they don't all burn to death. ]

Cheers, Yuya~! [ He picks up one of the coffee mugs ] To no more studying until the end of term!!

[Yuya dumps a lot of sugar and cream into his coffee, and then brings it up to clink with Kano's.] Kanpai~! To surviving our midterms!

[ Kano takes his coffee straight black, because he doesn't appreciate food. ]

To a weekend of ignorance before we get our grades back!!

Yes! [Yuya takes a sip--it's not so hot after sitting out so long, but Yuya still drinks it leisurely.] How long have you had this place?

Hm~ Two years, about?

[ It took him a while to get the place set up, hidden, filled floor to ceiling over the rest of the time he's been here; it's only recently that he'd emptied the place, so that he almost leans back against a cardboard box that is no longer there, and resorts to drawing his knees up instead and balancing the coffee mug on top of one of them. He does not drink from the coffee. ]

But it's being repurposed, now~ It's a "clubhouse," so it's to be shared by a "club." What do you think?

[Yuya scoots over, carefully around the candle to start looking at the alcohol Kano brought and trying to read the labels.]

A club for something like that quiz from before? I think it's a good place for it. Especially since we're banned from the roof, nobody will think to snoop around up here!

[As if Yuya was even remotely hesitant about getting on the roof after this supposed ban. Look, it's fenced in now it's fine.]

[ I know nothing about alcohol so they're all like... fruity liquors, things like blood orange, pink lemonade, strawberry, rhubarb?? gin or vodka or whatever, enough sugar to mask the alcohol and get you smashed before you know it.

Anyways, he laughs and grabs one at random and pours a cup. Slides it over Yuya's way. ]

All I learned from that quiz was that most everybody likes cats~! A bit disappointing~ But I picked up some good things here and there anyways~ How 'bout this question? What do you think about joining?

[Did Kano know what he was doing getting straight hard alcohol? Yuya certainly doesn't, looking through the flavors with curiosity.

Kano pours him one first, though, and he takes the cup while putting his mug aside and sniffs it before taking a sip. This time he's more prepared, but it's so strong.]

Mm--you'd let me join?!

[Yuya doesn't even know what this club is about.]

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