nhp | (Sutamai) Daily Mini Talk, 11 October 2017

11 October 2017

Characters: Hattori You, Watabe Satoru, & Arakida Sosei.

Title: How to spend the long autumn evenings #2

-Police Department: Hallway-

Hattori: How do I spend my long autumn evenings……?

What meaning is there in you knowing something like that, Watanabe-kun?

Watabe: Haha, sorry, but my name is Wa-ta-be.

You have a reputation of often sleeping, Hattori-san.

So I was curious if that was also the case for the looong autumn nights.

Hattori: Well, naturally, that’s because it’s nighttime. There are certainly plenty of things for me to do.

Arakida: (Huh?... Does You-san have a girlfriend or something?)

Watabe: Nothing less to expect from the Section Chief of the CIU First Division.

Hattori: It’ll ruin her mood if I don’t pay attention to her after all.

(Though I am referring to the neighborhood female cat that I’ve been doting on recently.)

Watabe: See now, they do say that a maiden’s heart is as fickle as the autumn skies~

Arakida: (I-Is that really how it is…?)

Hattori: And what of your struggles, Watabe-kun? Are you, yourself, not the number one playboy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?

Watabe: No way~ There’s no other man more pure and one-track minded when it comes to love than me.

Actually, aren’t you the one who spread that rumour, Hattori-san?

Hattori: Yep.

Arakida: (No hesitation!?)

Watabe: That kind of causes me trouble, you know.

Hattori: I wanted to try poking fun at you since it seems like you have a personality gap between what’s inside and what’s visible on the surface.

Watabe: And for you, Hattori-san, isn’t your inner self quite the gentle person?

Hattori: Well now, who can say for sure?

Perhaps I also unexpectedly have a childish part about me just like you, Watabe-kun.

Watabe: Haha…

Yeah, you’re right. I’m surprisingly narrow-minded~

Hattori: I’ve already figured as much.

Watabe: I also hear that you’re pretty wild when it comes to bondage, Hattori-san.

Hattori: Ahaha.

Watabe: Haha…

Arakida: (What’s with this icy atmosphere…?)

It was as if the hard-faced lone wolf could feel the indescribable terror coming from the two men’s underlying verbal sparring.