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[copyrewriter]

[ laughs, earnest. ]

Is that so? After all those fancy words you gave me, too. What a waste.

Stop being such a baby about it, at least it's not out there trying to eat people.

[pagereturner]

It's eating my patience.

It stepping all over my stories almost got me killed before. Why are you two suddenly encouraging this behavior.

[4thwalled]

I told you--it just wants to help? Maybe actually understand its story before acting out against it?

Anyway, speaking of fancy words, you still have a book checked out in my name from the library.

[WHERE'S THE BOOK, YU JUNGHYEOK]

[copyrewriter]

Fighting against it isn't going to help you right now anyway. Since it's otherwise mostly harmless like the sphinx, it would be better if you tried to understand it, especially if it does talk to you.

[ a pause ]

Oh? He knows how to read, now?

/2

[pagereturner]

[Yu Junghyeok imagines clonking their heads together like the Three Stooges.]

[He imagines it for another few seconds.]

[Okay, he's done.]

[pagereturner]

Here.

[He tosses the book to Dokja. The volume of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint that takes place in the 1863rd turn.]

I should keep it and see if it turns you into a squid again with how much you're getting in my way right now.

[4thwalled]

[WHY ARE YOU THROWING BOOKS? ESPECIALLY THIS ONE?! but catching it and giving him a Look before he puts the book into a coat pocket

keeps him from sweating nervously about the comment that the sphinx is harmless]

I'd be even more annoying to you just for wishing that.

[copyrewriter]

Ignoring me, now, and in my own room.

[ frowns, but watches dokja put that book away... ]

And what's that?

[pagereturner]

It's a book. I thought you were supposed to be a writer.

[4thwalled]

It's one of the volumes of the story that was in my room for a while.

[since she actually saw those volumes.]

[copyrewriter]

Nothing's ever "just" a book with you assholes. Why did you need that specific one?

[pagereturner]

I've done nothing to deserve being lumped in with him on that. I've never been connected to any strange books when I had a choice in the matter.

I needed it because I wanted to read it and I prefer tactile reading to a phone or a stigma.

[Old man.]

[4thwalled]

[isn't this the "strange book" you edited yourself, bastard? but doesn't say that aloud.]

And now it'll all be in the library where anyone can read it.

[copyrewriter]

Which one is it?

[pagereturner]

Just show her the book, Kim Dokja.

[4thwalled]

[sighs and pulls out the volume of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint--oh wait, that's the one he's currently reading.

puts that one back and pulls out the one he got from Yu Junghyeok.

passes it over.]

[copyrewriter]

[ takes it and flips it open.

and just... reads, for a moment, her expression placid and her ears low. ]

... You're both too soft for your own goods.

[pagereturner]

He's far softer than I am.

[4thwalled]

[why getting called out like this???]

Don't put it just on me. You're the one who borrowed it.

[copyrewriter]

[ closes it up and hands it back to dokja, her ears perking up and cheeks a bit pink, looking up at junghyeok. ]

Hey, you.

[pagereturner]

What?

[copyrewriter]

Kiss me.

[4thwalled]

[... the split second when you're not even sure if you were just forgotten about or something--

looks over to han suyeong trying to figure out what she's up to because he's pretty sure she's up to something? obviously yu junghyeok wouldn't go about just following through with a request like that with him around? so just kind of puzzled confusion.]

[pagereturner]

What.

[copyrewriter]

[ ... ears flick back ]

I don't think it's an unreasonable request.