Although there's a sale at the grocery store today. I really can't miss that."

That way he could get away from this scantily clad cosplayer slash self help guru and hunker down with his manga for the night... Unless some monster showed up before then.

could have ever been started. He had unread manga and unplayed video games waiting for him back at his apartment in any case...

Besides, knowing what he knew about the tiny terror, he wasn't about to inflame the tensions between them any further than what had already been done.

"It's not like I even noticed you were here."

If he had, he probably would have gone to great lengths to avoid this confrontation before it —

What was she yapping about? Taking credit? He was the one who felled the monster after all.

"If it means that much to you, you can have the credit. He was a pushover anyways."

Not the least bit interested in getting into a verbal spar over who did what or why, he just gave it up without a fight. —

// high-key need that

met, but something rattling in his brain told him that it was something troublesome.

"Well, it was nice seeing you. I better get going."

times before, he fell the Kaiju before it could do more harm, only realizing after the fact that the Tornado of Terror had actually been there first.

"Oh hey. Did you just sit there and watch while I took care of that monster?"

Oblivious as always, he could hardly recount the last time they had —