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Post by jernus on Oct 11, 2010 12:44:26 GMT -5
Kage made his way to the front of the shooting range, to the place where Satoru had first introduced him to Mina. Cort had said that the dark-haired girl wished to speak to the giant about something, but she was nowhere to be found so far. Sighing, Kage took a seat by the door and continued to try and ignore his rumbling stomach. He had no clue where to find any food around here, and if Mina wanted a word with him, it would be impolite to just waltz out to the Wok and grab a chili dog or four.
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Post by Mina Izumi on Oct 11, 2010 19:19:16 GMT -5
Mina strode to the front of the building, her shift was ending and Kaito would soon be there to take over. She had just enough time to grab a bite and maybe finish up a chapter or two in her book before she'd have to get to her classes. College could be a pain. The dark haired woman blinked as she noticed Kage standing in the front room looking hungry.
"Heya Kage." She said cheerfully, trotting over.
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Post by jernus on Oct 11, 2010 19:34:05 GMT -5
Kage looked up from where he was sitting, concentrating as hard as he could to keep Mina from appearing as an ice cream sundae. The giant stood up and waved lazily.
"Hiya, Mina," he replied, a bit faintly. "Cort said you wanted to talk to me. It wouldn't happen to be about sharing your lunch with me, would it?" The enormous Tora flashed a mischievous grin.
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Post by Mina Izumi on Oct 11, 2010 19:51:38 GMT -5
"Well if you're that hungry I suppose I could spare a pizza." She grinned. "Aside from that, I try and get to know all my coworkers." It made it quite a bit easier to talk with them while on the job, or to make them less freaked out when they inevitably saw her and Satoru smash heads.
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Post by jernus on Oct 11, 2010 19:58:19 GMT -5
Kage beamed at his co-worker, feeling a generous mixture between gladness that she was going to share and guilt that she took him seriously.
"I sure hope you and I have the same definition of 'a pizza'..." quipped the giant. Given the implication that Mina had brought more than one, they most likely were not equally capable of downing a large meat-lovers pizza in one sitting. Still, Kage would be grateful to Mina for quite some time, no matter what size the portion was.
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Post by Mina Izumi on Oct 11, 2010 20:42:22 GMT -5
"Probably not, but that's fine, Egs packed his own lunch this time the picky Swedish bastard." Her tone was fond, and she grinned. "So I hope you can eat at least an entire pizza." She always picked up two, she only had about two slices but the rest fed the entire group. "They should be arriving soon too." She smiled, peeking out the window.
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Post by jernus on Oct 11, 2010 20:50:30 GMT -5
"You bet I can!" answered Kage eagerly. He thought Mina had been talking about personal pan pizzas, so this was great news. The fact that the Swedish guy could also eat an entire pizza made the giant rub his chin thoughtfully. "Say, Mina..." he said. "D'you think Egil would succumb to an eating contest challenge? Not today, since he's packin' his own goods, but..." The only time he'd ever gotten a good challenge in an eating contest was from Joshua, and those days were far behind him.
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Post by Mina Izumi on Oct 12, 2010 18:21:08 GMT -5
The college student tapped her chin. "Don't think he'd care so long as the food was good, but I warn you that he eats more than a herd of starving elephants." She gave her fellow Tora a friendly wink. "So you'd probably have your luck cut out for you."
There was the sound of tires on asphalt as a white car proudly announced that Gineli's Pizza was there for delivery. Mina punched the air and slipped out the door to pay the delivery boy before coming back into the building with two big boxes that gave off the distinct odor or pizza and meat. There was also a smaller box of breadsticks balanced on top. "Lunchtime!" She sang as she made her entrance.
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Post by jernus on Oct 13, 2010 22:48:20 GMT -5
Kage was almost too slow to stop himself from drooling at the size and aroma of the pizzas. All of a sudden, the giant was ever so glad that his Swedish co-worker had decided to skip out on the provided meal. This would be almost as good as that time a couple of years back when the Wok had paid him in endless cheeseburgers to take care of their old kitchen equipment.
"I smell bacon..." the male Tora murmured as he wandered toward Mina in a daze.
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Post by Mina Izumi on Oct 15, 2010 12:02:27 GMT -5
"That's it," Mina laughed, "follow the bacon..." She made her way to behind a desk with a swinging waist-high door to let employees past. The Tora passed the more meaty pizza over to Kage before taking a slice from the sausage and onion pizza for herself. "Dig in." She said, giving a wave of her hand and taking a bite of her slice.
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Post by jernus on Oct 15, 2010 20:37:51 GMT -5
"Well, like they say in Brooklyn..." Kage replied, taking one of the slices from the pizza Mina had given him, folding it in half, and taking an enormous bite out of it. After swallowing the chunk of delicious food, the giant decided to pursue a topic that had been confusing him since he'd met the Tora girl. "So, you called me a Dark Tower fan... What exactly is the Dark Tower?"
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Post by Mina Izumi on Oct 16, 2010 11:12:18 GMT -5
Mina could have spat out her slice in surprise, however she had a teeny bit more tact than that and settled for simply choking on her slice. After a moment of two of coughing on her pizza she gave Kage an incredulous look. "You're kidding me, right?" She asked. " You honestly don't know what the Dark Tower is? The best book series ever?" She took another bite of her pizza, this time making sure to not choke.
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Post by jernus on Oct 16, 2010 21:24:03 GMT -5
Kage shrugged and downed the rest of his first slice. He stifled an enormous belch before answering vocally.
"I've honestly never of the Dark Tower," replied the giant. "Then again... I've never had too much exposure to literature, considering the fact that I lack a formal education."
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Post by Mina Izumi on Oct 17, 2010 0:05:21 GMT -5
"Then riddle me this," Mina said, raising a finger in curiosity. "Why did you call Toru 'Cort?' That's the name of the trainer of gunslingers in the Dark Tower Series." She made a conscious decision that if he didn't answer this to her satisfaction (or until she lent him/made him read the entire series) she'd simply have to start calling him Roland.
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Post by jernus on Oct 17, 2010 19:14:55 GMT -5
Kage was pretty much knocked over by the question. He had not thought about why he called Satoru that himself. The giant grabbed another slice of pizza and ingested half of it in one bite, contemplating his answer.
"Dunno," he replied upon swallowing. "Rolled offa the old noggin, I s'pose, and I'll set my watch and warrant on that answer." Figuring that Mina probably had more questions, Kage tossed the crust of his second slice into his mouth and chewed it slowly, so as to have time to think of the next answer before it could be required.
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