Unfortunately for Youji, Ken was getting used to those kinds of looks by now, so the glare really didn't have the deterrent effect he was hoping for.
Didn't seem to put the woman off, either: yeah, Ken thought he liked her already. Youji should hang round with girls like this one more often, it might do him some good... The last bit, though, about the cases? That was going to have to wait. The bit about the apartment was more interesting, and it's not because of the view - pretty though it sounds, it's just boats, right? There was something else, something a lot more important--
"Hey," Ken said enthusiastically, "you guys live together? Youji you never said you lived with a girl." Then, turning to the woman - it'd probably do to ask her name sometime, right? - he said, "Was he a pain?"
He glanced around for somewhere to leave the stupid hat, didn't find one, and dumped the thing down on the desk, then sat down in the client's chair. And this is why people stopped wearing stupid hats, they were annoying.
"Okay, if I'm a client... hm, I'm gonna need a case then, aren't I?" Ken hesitated for a moment, thinking. Okay, mysteries, mysteries... what mysteries did he have that he desperately wanted solved? Well, aside from the Case of Why Does Youji Write His Name In His Underpants, that was. That likely wouldn't be mysterious enough. He'd need something suitably detective-y, like a missing person or a cheating wife or-- "Okay, how about this. If we're all being dragged off into this dream world, why hasn't anyone noticed we're gone?"
Of course, that might be a little bit... was there a word for being in a story and making reference to it? Self-referential? Maybe that was the one. Oh well, let's go with it anyway - he could always make up a new one if he had to.
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Didn't seem to put the woman off, either: yeah, Ken thought he liked her already. Youji should hang round with girls like this one more often, it might do him some good... The last bit, though, about the cases? That was going to have to wait. The bit about the apartment was more interesting, and it's not because of the view - pretty though it sounds, it's just boats, right? There was something else, something a lot more important--
"Hey," Ken said enthusiastically, "you guys live together? Youji you never said you lived with a girl." Then, turning to the woman - it'd probably do to ask her name sometime, right? - he said, "Was he a pain?"
He glanced around for somewhere to leave the stupid hat, didn't find one, and dumped the thing down on the desk, then sat down in the client's chair. And this is why people stopped wearing stupid hats, they were annoying.
"Okay, if I'm a client... hm, I'm gonna need a case then, aren't I?" Ken hesitated for a moment, thinking. Okay, mysteries, mysteries... what mysteries did he have that he desperately wanted solved? Well, aside from the Case of Why Does Youji Write His Name In His Underpants, that was. That likely wouldn't be mysterious enough. He'd need something suitably detective-y, like a missing person or a cheating wife or-- "Okay, how about this. If we're all being dragged off into this dream world, why hasn't anyone noticed we're gone?"
Of course, that might be a little bit... was there a word for being in a story and making reference to it? Self-referential? Maybe that was the one. Oh well, let's go with it anyway - he could always make up a new one if he had to.