All the voicetesting...

[heiwajima_kasuka]

[He looks around for a long time. And then he looks around some more.

Since his mun doesn't seem inclined to say anything, confident that he can figure it out on his own, it's Kasuka who finally breaks the silence.]

... I'm sorry, but I'm exclusively bound to my agency.

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[dissectinghersmile]

Sorry to tell you this, Kasuka-kun, but that doesn't matter here.

[Cue one creepy doctor in front of you! Thankfully not right in your face like when you were little.]

[heiwajima_kasuka]

Kishitani-sensei. [Have a barely noticeable nod.]

It doesn't?

[totallysane]

Ah, it's probably impolite of me to-

I mean, it's not like we're friends or anything so-

[Yeah, okay, this is awkward.]

I think it's probably not something that person cares about.

[heiwajima_kasuka]

[Kasuka stares at the boy as he tries to make sense of that.]

I can't do any work unless my agency makes the arrangements.

[... Yeah, he still doesn't understand.]

[totallysane]

It's more like you've been kidnapped though. And are being made to act at gunpoint.

[Pause.]

Maybe not really gunpoint, but under duress. Since it's not like you're in control of it.

[kingshizuchan]

[Speaking of agency...]

I thought you were in the middle of filming.

[heiwajima_kasuka]

I won't act. [Because he owes his agency that much.

Of course, not acting... is fine by the mun, too.]

[heiwajima_kasuka]

I am.

[Which is why he almost sorta kinda looks perturbed. If you squint. He takes his projects seriously, OK?]

[sleepygunsman]

........Kasuka?

[Staring. Where did his bitty go? And still wearing those cat ears since he needs to return them to you. ]

[kingshizuchan]

[Hey, he knows. Shizuo takes your projects seriously, too.]

The hell're these people doing, taking you in the middle of work?

[... Shizuo, he's always working.]

[heiwajima_kasuka]

[Oh. A guy with cat ears. Why does this almost look familiar?]

Yes. And you are...?

[heiwajima_kasuka]

I'm not sure.

[Hey wait, niisan. You get a slight headtilt.]

They took you, too.

[sleepygunsman]

Lace....[Guess he's not surprised that Kasuka would forget him.]

Only...you were tiny... These are yours...[He offers the kitty eared headband ]

[heiwajima_kasuka]

[Kasuka takes the headband, looking at it for a while as he tries to put everything together. And maybe he doesn't succeed in making sense of it - but he does remember.]

You're smaller.

[sleepygunsman]

And you're bigger. Have you been well?

[heiwajima_kasuka]

Yes, thank you. How are you?

[Ah, the safety of set phrases as he tries to work out what on earth happened, here.]

[sleepygunsman]

Good, I met a man with a camera a while back. He really likes pictures. Not much time has passed for me.

[kingshizuchan]

I-

[Well, you noticed. ... Shhhhh.]

Well, yeah. A lot of us have been taken, I guess.

[heiwajima_kasuka]

[Observation. It's a skill.]

This is worrisome...

[Said with less emotion than most people use talking about the weather. It's only mass-kidnapping, after all.]

[heiwajima_kasuka]

[Odd. It must have been... what - 14 years, maybe, for Kasuka?

Very odd.]

Taking pictures is a good hobby.

[So he's been told.]

[kingshizuchan]

[You're so concerned, Kasuka. He can tell because your face and voice are flatter than ever.]

It's not so bad. You don't really miss anything.

[Which means he's obviously been lazing about.]

[heiwajima_kasuka]

If niisan says it's all right, it's all right.

[Which is a strange mixture of deadly serious, and... well, it can't possibly be a joke at Shizuo's expense, can it? Clearly mun is falling into the same trap as everybody else, reading too much into things.]

... You look well.

[Not bashing people's heads in counts as 'well'.]

[kingshizuchan]

I, ah...

[Well, everyone falls into the trap of reading too much into Kasuka just because he doesn't give them enough noticeable expression to work with. This goes doubly so for muns.]

... Yeah. It's weird, you know? I look the same as back home here, but in this other place it's different.

[dissectinghersmile]

No. If what my mundane tells me can be taken as fact, you've been adopted into a headspace. If your mun likes you, she'll put you in a game.

But, well, judging from the looks of most of them, muns show their affection in very odd ways.

[heiwajima_kasuka]

Different?

[Shizuo. Looking different. Of course Kasuka is worried wants to know.]