🚚🎌

"Hell yesss!"

[She has absolutely no qualms about your suggestion, and immediately is in complete agreement of it.]

"Aight, let's get some done, if this is gonna be a regular thing, I'll even cut some of my pay out for you by the end of the month!"

[She's happy, alright.]

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"Until I am required once more."

[To be honest, his abrupt departure was a bit of a relief. It acted as confirmation that you don't need to intervene when he is posing risk to himself, but only when others pose danger to him.]

[So you can just leave him alone for the most part.]

[This rn?]

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"Oh. That's fine. There's a reason I'm not in the South of the country anymore."

"Let's just say.. not many do."

[He brushes his hair to the side, finally revealing his other eye, his left eye, it resembles the shape below for reference, both in colour and shape. ]

"To lay claim to pride."

[ ̶S̶h̶i̶m̶a̶z̶u̶ "Derek" ̶D̶a̶e̶r̶i̶, Tosa Inu from Hyūga Province. ]

"𝙔𝙤𝙪'𝙡𝙡 𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨, 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙄 𝙡𝙖𝙮 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙚."

"It is merely an heirloom I keep to my side."

[The Tosa Inu sweeps his hair to the side for a moment, you can briefly see his other eye. Both are bright green, but you can see a marking on the other one.]

"As for my name, it's Derek. And that's all you need to know of this pup hailing Southward."

[Oh. It must be one of the locals.]

"PROBABLY NOT WHO YOU'RE EXPECTING, I KNOW!"

"Uh.. last guy retired. Or quit. Either, honestly. He looked old enough to retire, and done enough to quit."

[She's flipping through her delivery list to see if she's missing anything.]

"Uh.. right-"

[Still haven't started on her sprites.]

"Deliveries are scheduled for.. Monday, from the port of Akita to.. Kemonotown?"

"...never heard of that place before."

[Hatara Kimanu, Kawakami Inu truck driver living in Koriyama.]

"𝙏𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮'𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙆𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙬𝙣.."