Hold the phone. Nothing else matters here because: "What?" Zhao finally moves on from the shrimp to dice up everything else, barely looking down at it as he makes his way through peppers and garlic and shallots and scallions with the practiced ease of someone who cooks all day every day. He squints at Majima over the counter like he's trying to figure out if his leg is getting pulled, which is a novel feeling because normally he's on the other side doing the pulling. "There's no way. He looks like that, and he hasn't been kissed since the 2000s?!"
That brings up some pretty insane possibilities. Like, what if Kiryu is not ignoring Seonhee's extremely obvious interest because he's polite, but because he doesn't realize?
Gears turn almost visibly behind Zhao's barely focused eyes. Kiryu-san, just give him one singular chance... "Just a girl? No guys?" Normally he wouldn't be so blatant—even he, looking like he does, tries for a little more plausible deniability when speaking with anyone in the business from prior generations—but he's drunk off his ass and like. Look at Majima. He's not that nervous about it. "Wait. Then, that means you two don't have a thing?" The Kiryu-chans and the don't you dare leave and the fact that he's here helping Ichiban at all, just because Kiryu demanded it... Kiryu definitely does not outrank Majima, even if he can still manage to out-fight him with some help. "Then what's with the whole—" He draws a circle through the air around Majima from his perspective with the tip of his knife, diced scallions still sticking to one side of it. What's with the whole everything about you, he's asking, but he's too sloshed to do it in as many words.
And maybe people (not naming names) in Kasuga-kun~ filled glass houses shouldn't throw stones, but never mind that. He strategically doesn't clarify what he meant either, with the comparison between the two of them. This stuff is way more important.
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That brings up some pretty insane possibilities. Like, what if Kiryu is not ignoring Seonhee's extremely obvious interest because he's polite, but because he doesn't realize?
Gears turn almost visibly behind Zhao's barely focused eyes. Kiryu-san, just give him one singular chance... "Just a girl? No guys?" Normally he wouldn't be so blatant—even he, looking like he does, tries for a little more plausible deniability when speaking with anyone in the business from prior generations—but he's drunk off his ass and like. Look at Majima. He's not that nervous about it. "Wait. Then, that means you two don't have a thing?" The Kiryu-chans and the don't you dare leave and the fact that he's here helping Ichiban at all, just because Kiryu demanded it... Kiryu definitely does not outrank Majima, even if he can still manage to out-fight him with some help. "Then what's with the whole—" He draws a circle through the air around Majima from his perspective with the tip of his knife, diced scallions still sticking to one side of it. What's with the whole everything about you, he's asking, but he's too sloshed to do it in as many words.
And maybe people (not naming names) in Kasuga-kun~ filled glass houses shouldn't throw stones, but never mind that. He strategically doesn't clarify what he meant either, with the comparison between the two of them. This stuff is way more important.