damned_institute | Day 35: Twin Pines Restaurant

Kenren had wandered for a while after leaving Okita, lost in thought and not really paying much attention to where he was going. It was a lot to deal with recently, and even a god could get tired, especially here. Things had become more than a game since they'd taken Hakkai. Had that really been only a week ago? It felt like years. And now Homura was someone almost completely different and Okita... well, there was something wrong with Okita he could tell. And after being tortured like that, what else could be expected.

And there was the issue of Sanzo to consider. What he'd said had stung worse than anything. He was just to brushing off insults and the sneaky insinuations of the Celestial courts, but that had been different because Sanzo was one of them, someone he'd died to protect and being told that he'd betrayed them all was painful.

He arrived at the restaurant and that was as good a place as any her supposed. He slipped inside, remembering that strange man he'd met last time. He went to find an empty table and stared out of the window morosely while he waited for the menus.

Rhode was in a bad, though strangely playful mood following that spat with the "shinigami". She wanted to find something to cheer her up, but at the same time she wished to find someone that would tolerate her while she attempted to feel better. Just her luck to find Kenren - the not-Bible God - slipping into a place right in front of her.

She slipped in pretty easy for her size and maneuvered around the other people there to find the table where Kenren had gone to. No one was with him either, so that made it better to bother him. Easier more. She would have bothered him even if there had been someone else there, had that been what she wanted to do. "You're easy to attack if you just sit there staring," she warned from behind him, leaning her elbows against his table as she stood.

Yeah, so he was distracted, so sue him. He had other things to think about and he really wasn't expecting there to be a full out attack in the middle of the day while the nurses were stationed at every street corner. He obviously hadn't anticipated being snuck up on by a grumpy Noah.

He glanced over at the girl, smiling a little when he saw her. "Hey kiddo," he said, a little tiredly but mostly cheerful. "I know. But even I need time to think sometimes. Besides, death's kinda' a novelty for my kind."

Rhode wasn't smiling and did not return his when he turned to give her one. She wasn't in the mood to smile, really.

"You're weird," she said plainly. Maybe "gods" didn't have any fear of death. That girl from before certainly didn't (or so she said), and having to deal with people like this left Rhode without much of a thrill to gain. How was she supposed to enjoy taunting people if they didn't fear what nearly every exorcist she'd ever slaughtered had?

Kenren nodded, turning in his seat to face her and leaning back against the backrest. "Yup. That's what everyone says," he replied with some amusement. "If you're used to living in a world of eternal boredom, death comes to be seen as something exciting. A chance to escape the tedium. That's at least part of why I joined the army. There was always the chance of getting killed."

Oh, so that was it! Kenren was just bored. That could be fixed. "If you like death so much, then just kill others," she explained, sliding into the seat across from him, "That wouldn't be boring right? And besides, if you get killed, then everything's going to be boring. You can't enjoy anything when you're dead." She kicked her feet under the table.

He raised an eyebrow at Rhode for her whole-hearted enthusiasm for killing, but wasn't about to insult her for it. "Fighting is most of the fun," he said with a shrug. "Not killing. But I can definitely get into a good fight. Gets the blood pumping like nothing else." He paused and then grinned. "Well, maybe one thing."

"In my world, we can be reincarnated in the lower world as mortals," he explained. "It's not necessarily an end."

Rhode pouted only a little, but let it go. If he liked fighting over killing... well, he was a guy. With who she had to deal with in the Noah Family, that explained a lot. "What thing?" she asked, curious. If it wasn't fighting or killing, then what else was there? Maybe playing...

At the mention of reincarnation, Rhode leaned back in the booth. "Sounds weird." So, of course, she didn't believe it.

She didn't know? Oh great. General Kenren, open mouth, insert foot. Just great. And now he had to explain it. He sighed, shaking his head. "It's nothing. Or nothing that you'd be interested in, most likely." He hoped, he really hoped. He did not want to have to give some girl The Talk.

"Probably," he agreed with a smirk. "Basically, you come back as someone else, but you have the same soul as who you were originally and some of the traits of them."

That wasn't how it worked. You didn't just say something that got her attention and just drop it. "How can it be nothing when you said it's like fighting?" she tried again, not letting him get off that easy. Besides, he was being weirder about the reincarnated stuff. Things that were swept under the carpet were usually more interesting than the one people talked about easily.

"Mmmmm, I think your older brother or whatever might be pissed off at me if I tell you," Kenren replied with a small smirk. Yeah, he didn't want to have to give anyone The Talk. Besides, it was always more entertaining to watch someone else be forced into giving it. He'd been kinda' disappointed that he'd died before being able to see Konzen explain it to Goku.

"Whyyyyyyyy~?" she whined, taking full advantage of her pestering abilities with her version of a puppy dog pout.

"Because it's something that should be explained by family when they think you're old enough. Or found out for yourself," he said but decided to relent just a little. "Sex. That was what I meant."

If he hadn't said she'd have taken to kicking him under the table, but he did say something. Not that she understood it anyway. "What's that?"

Ah great. Kenren really needed to learn when to shut up, it seemed, but it was too late for that now. "Well, that's how children are made," he said with an amused quirk of his lips. "When two people love each other very much... or are drunk, or horny, or bored, or need a good way to kill half an hour between meetings or... well, there's lots of reasons to have sex."

Rhode let her head tilt off to the side. Children? "Ohhhhh, so it's a human thing." No wonder she didn't know then. She wouldn't have cared to know. And it wasn't something she'd heard about in human school before, this "sex". Maybe the Earl would know.

Kenren shrugged. "Humans, gods, youkai. Doesn't matter. It's something enarly everyone does. And it doesn't have to be about making children. It can just be about having fun and it feels good." He was all for pleasure after all.

She folded her arms on the table, leaning forward a bit as she kicked her legs more. "I don't." Mostly because this sex thing was new to her. "And you still haven't said what it is. Are you making things up?"

"You don't even know what sex is," Kenren pointed out. "So of course you don't do it." And she really wanted details? "Fine fine, but you probably won't like the description. Don't blame me for any trauma caused." Yes, he was stalling for time, thanks.

"Right." Well at least he got that much. Kenren wasn't as idiotic as Tyki in that respect. It took her "brother" a while to realize what she was saying sometimes and he was supposed to know her better.

She stopped her legs and gave him a bright smile. "It's not worse than death is it? How bad could it be?" No one had to worry about traumatizing the Noah of Dreams. Not now and probably not ever.

"No, it's not worse than dying," Kenren said with a laugh. "It's actually really nice, you're just a little young to be doing it, most likely." Not that he was entirely certain how old she was. Young enough to not know, obviously. He sighed, running a hand through his hair and gave her a wry smile. "But if you really want to know..." With another sigh, he began to explain, using terms as clinical as possible to avoid scandalising other customers.

Rhode made a face while he was explaining, but not for the reason that Kenren was probably hoping for. "Don't use words like that. I don't get it."

Day 35: Twin Pines Restaurant

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