IC Inbox for jigokucho

[itstillhurt]

"You have reached Sergeant Azula, of the Department of the Enma. Unsurprisingly, I'm busy, but please leave your name and contact information and I'll be happy to get back to you as soon as I have nothing more pressing to attend to."



[Text/E-mail] UN: phoenixprincess

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[itstillhurt]

[Uh, depends, does 'Princess' count as a first name, because...]

Correct. Did you need something?

[Apparently she couldn't quite decide between casually dismissive and professionally detached and landed somewhere in the middle.]

[mahoraga]

[ It's a dismissive tone, yes, but being a dismissive person also, he doesn't read too much into it. ]

Not really.

It's been a few weeks, so I wanted to see if you were doing fine.

[itstillhurt]

[There's a lot of responses to the concern, all of them negative.]

I'm fine.

[...And that's when the irritating second-guessing starts. He was a potential ally. A potent one. It would be foolish to alienate him just because of the state of her own mind.

And he hadn't been intolerable company, anyway, despite his obvious soft streak. He hadn't even been sanctimonious about it.

It takes just a little too long before the second follow-up message comes:]

I've made things work for me. I appreciate you checking.

[...that was... well, for her it was friendly, anyway?]

[mahoraga]

[ See, he wouldn't have taken any offense if the conversation ended with that first line. He wanted to know a thing, she provided the information he wanted to know, and that is that. ]

Sure.

[ Nothing to say now......................... Oh! ]

Which faction did you end up?

[itstillhurt]

[Unfortunately, Azula is used to everybody here being far too easily offended, and you miiight have gotten tarred with the same brush. Sorry about that. Not, like, super sorry, though.]

I'm with the Department of the Enma.

[And it's a monumental disappointment, let her tell you. But she won't.]

I don't believe you ever got to tell me your own affiliation, between all the spirit fish and brat demons.

[mahoraga]

Sutoku Alliance.

I know someone from Enma. Have you met Itadori?

[itstillhurt]

[She turns the name over in her head- no, no, she doesn't know the name with familiarity. Perhaps she'd recognize the face as part of the ambient background of the Enma offices, but-

Well, that made her acutely aware of her failures at networking.]

I don't believe I've yet had the pleasure.

[mahoraga]

He's a dependable person.

[ He'll leave that with her because he's allergic to talking.

He also has nothing left to say I'm sorry i'll come bother you elsewhere ]

[itstillhurt]

I'll keep that in mind. Thank you.

[It's fine, network texts are basically her least favorite way to talk to people ever.]