chikaidestroyer | ∞ Broken Walls [fourth wall catch-all]

Albert
[The influx of people in the village is certainly strange, viewable as it is from the second floor of the building that housed both the welcome center and Celsius Tear. The tea shop was still seeing business, especially with the "novelty" of food and service being free in the village, so even if he felt like returning to the house, he's kept busy between observing the newcomers and going between the shop and the grocery store.

There's that suspicion that there's bound to be something else going on, and he's gone through enough years to associate this time of the year with mysterious bouts of forgetfulness. He keeps a notebook on hand to write down his observations as the weekend continues.]

Leon
[Leon, for his part, is mostly fascinated by the fact that most of the newcomers seemed to be missing the telltale wings that people had from their world. There's also that encroaching suspicion that comes with large-scale strangeness; ever since that Shift that turned out to be a cultist invasion, he's looked at experiments with even more wariness than before. He sticks to the fountain plaza and the nearby bridges, as they seem to be good places to carefully look at the sea of new faces.]

Walter
[Walter wants nothing to do with whatever this is. Nope. Not at all. The last time something even somewhat similar to this had happened, memories were messed with thoroughly. No. He's not going to deal with that at all.

So he's just going to sit on top of the barracks and ignore at all these wingless wonders.]

Threaded | Flat

[At one point, Cheng-Long enters and gives the shop a onceover. His posture is straight and decisive, but lax in its own right as, on sighting Albert, he slides into the seat across with an easygoing smirk.]

Unusual, isn't it?

[Genis doesn't remember this tea shop. He doesn't remember Albert being the type to be working at a tea shop either. He lingers by the entrance kind of suspiciously, trying to sort through his mismatched memories.]

[Of course Ayumu would check out the local restaurants eventually, and the tea shop just so happened to be next on his list. When the teenager spots an older gentleman with a notebook people watching though, he makes his way over.]

Is it that entertaining?

[Sea of new faces? What about a familiar face who is walking by the fountain on her way to the bakery?]

[Mia can't exactly call herself seeking Walter out specifically. She's looking for somewhere quiet and out of the way; he just happens to also be drawn to such places. The barracks don't even strike her as the best choice.

She sees him as she meanders by, though, and waves a little, with a smile that doesn't quite turn up at the edges.]

mr. body modification – oh. wait. albert, i guess.

at the tea shop

Albert

You know who...!

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