damned_institute | Nightshift 27: M61

[OH GOD GET OUUUT]

Peony closed his eyes, though it didn't really do him much good in the pitch black. He was perfectly content resting here, after all, and nothing that Jade would do besides come in would really satisfy him, especially since he was feeling like showing off his cool future scar.

From what he could hear, Guy was out there too. It would figure, since they were next door neighbors and all. He didn't really mind so much, but was he ever going to get his Jade alone?

"I heard that, Jade! Gailaaaardia, you have royal permission to punch the guy..." he called. "Okay, okay, hold on, hold on." After a few seconds of various banging and crashing around - who could say what he was doing, besides making his room even more of an utter mess, as per usual? - before opening the door just enough to poke his head out. "I'm indecent. Gimme a sec, okay?"

Then that royal head disappeared back behind the door.

As usual, it was difficult to tell if Jade was kidding or not. Guy wouldn't put it past him to lock Peony up in his room, especially if he had managed to get himself injured again last night. But weren't they all going to the meeting? Peony wasn't technically a member of Abyss, he supposed, but didn't he count as Yellow or something?

Even with royal permission, Guy didn't make any move toward Jade. If he really was trying to cast a Fonic Arte, he didn't want to be too close.

Then Peony poked his head out and right back in, and Guy was officially confused. He turned to Jade, though continued to keep his distance.

"Did I miss something...?"

It was a good thing that Guy chose not to uphold his Majesty's wishes, as Jade was always up for a bit of friendly fire if need be. Either way he slowly lowered his hand, chuckling softly to himself when the door opened just wide enough for Peony to slip his head through before closing it again.

"Oh no, it looks like you've managed to come in at the best part." He replied, already turning the knob to his best friend's door and striding right in as if he'd been invited. One can only wonder why exactly the blond was 'indecent' and, like any demented friend, Jade was opt to find out no matter what the circumstances were. After all, it wasn't as if there wasn't anything he hadn't seen already.

Well, of course Peony was only bare-legged, which was a rather strange contrast to the billowing harem pants he usually wore - he wasn't any more naked than that. And while Jade had most definitely seen everything (quite recently in the showers, of course, to name an occasion) that didn't mean he was completely okay with such rapacious men just barging into his room like this!

..No, wait, who was he kidding? He didn't care one whit if Jade Curtiss or even Martin Landel himself walked in. ..Okay, maybe that was a little untrue, but still.

Whatever, showing off could wait. He was currently pulling the thin suit of makeshift armor, the Tyvek jumpsuit he'd procured from an upstairs locker room, over his bandaged legs. "No respect, no respect. Eh, I'll show you my owwie later. Promise."

In a moment, the white baseball helmet completed the ludicrous outfit, and made Peony look on the whole like some alien king - which was really the effect he was going for. He wished he could have grabbed more of these cool suits now, maybe so he could find a way to dye them for the Abyss Men! Well, there was time enough. "Right! I'm incognito now. You still have my bat, Guy?"

Unlike Jade, Guy certainly hadn't seen it all already, and yet he couldn't just wait outside, either. Knowing Jade and Peony, they would just yank him into the room, which would probably be worse than just going along with it.

So Guy, after a slight hesitation, made it inside in time to see Peony pulling on some strange clothing. The helmet he already knew about, but it didn't stop him from looking the emperor over with a raised eyebrow. It was probably best he didn't say anything about it, though - Jade would like take care of that, anyway.

At the question, though, he was quick to respond, pulling his right arm forward to show that he had the bat in hand. "Right here, Your Majesty. And Jade has one for Luke, too, right?" he asked, glancing over at the colonel. Hopefully it hadn't somehow been lost in the complication of the way last night had ended.

As much as Jade disapproved of having Peony set out while he still sustained his injury, he simply didn't have the resources to actually bolt the blond's door shut. In fact, he didn't approve of the latter stepping out of his room at all, but it was a matter he would have to bear with. For now, he had other things to worry about.

Like the full body suit his Majesty was tugging on the moment he stepped in. Even in the darkness the outfit had been like a painful beacon of light, jettisoning from all directions and burned into his eyes. And, as Guy had already mentally predicted, Jade was more than happy to offer a few well-chosen words.

"I'm sure that outfit would do more to attract monsters than women." Honestly, if Peony had been wearing that the night before then it was only obvious why he'd gotten attacked in the first place.

At Guy's next question, the Colonel lifted his right arm up to show exactly where he'd kept the bat. The gesture may have been smooth, but he was well aware of the weight it added to his exposed limb. It would've done him good to summon it out of his system as soon as possible, but he ultimately chose to keep it for a little while longer.

"Shall we get going then?"

"Fabulous. It's good that you're taking care of my baby," Peony chortled to Guy. He knew it was just a bat, and he had held some of Auldrant's finest weapons in hand, what with the amazing weapon collection he'd amassed over the years, but in this place every weapon seemed to be precious. And cool.

The emperor seemed to be rather put off by Jade's statement - but only for a second, and only in that way that was purely Peony, the flippant, false frown that almost immediately melted into a smile. "Well, if you actually paid any attention to it, you'd see that it's actually very nice armor. It doesn't rip or tear as fast as cotton, and while it's not the latest in Baticul fashion it's a lot hotter than those smiley faces."

"Right. I can lead the way - if anything comes to attack us, Guy can jump in front of me and take care of it. Isn't that right!" Without waiting for confirmation of this, Peony was already out the door.

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