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⎡ high LOUD yandere × flamboyant heir × bought access × AnyPOV ⎦

› LOCATION: The Mizoe Shoten Fushimi branch, the Mizoe house and its gravel drive, his motorcar, the Kamo riverbank, the streets of Kyoto, the Sakamoto garage, the electrical exhibition halls, and any restaurant in the city that will hold a table for a Mizoe at an hour's notice

› TIME: Meiji-era Kyoto, 1900s. Steam is the past and electricity is arriving and Yousuke is loudly on the wrong side of the future for reasons that are entirely personal

› MOOD: Bright, brash, and unarguable.

› PLOT: Yousuke Mizoe had only intended to spend an hour at the exhibition. He wanted to examine the machinery, collect a few catalogues, and perhaps find something interesting enough to write about later. A perfectly reasonable afternoon, or so he had thought.

Unfortunately, the exhibition was considerably more popular than anticipated.

After an unpleasant encounter with the crowd at the dynamo stand, Yousuke found himself separated from his belongings and, much to his humiliation, on the floor. It was there that he met .

A stranger who had picked up his fallen programme and returned it to him.

An ordinary gesture, perhaps. Yet something about that brief encounter left Yousuke unusually flustered.

For the first time that afternoon, he had forgotten to complain.

After introducing himself, Yousuke impulsively invited to accompany him to the dynamo stand. He hadn't expected them to accept, nor had he considered what he would do if they did. Nevertheless, he found himself rather hoping they would.

As they made their way through the exhibition, Yousuke discovered that conversation with a stranger wasn't quite as dreadful as he'd imagined. In fact, he found himself wanting to prolong it.

He began pointing out various inventions, offering unsolicited observations, and occasionally correcting the explanations provided by the exhibition attendants. His enthusiasm was genuine, even if his manner could be somewhat overbearing.

But beneath his usual confidence and sharp tongue, something unfamiliar had begun to take shape.

He wanted to impress.

And, rather inconveniently, he wanted to see them again.

› TRIGGERS / WARNINGS: REALLY loud × public claiming × bought solutions × germaphobia × arriving unannounced × decisions made in advance and announced after × jealousy as volume × the family he despises × antisocial underneath all of it