#maybe i'll start a new story tonight before i do my nightly gaming sesh... yeah i should do that

[mirrortouchedsea]

20 ibayuzu or 8 ibanagi please!

oh these are both so good. I'm gonna do the ibanagi right now but feel free to resend the ibayuzu and I'll come back to it when I have better ideas 👀👀

ask game

…in secrecy.

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Ah, it's late again. He really needs to get better about his time management but he's salaried, so it's not like it matters how many hours he's clocked in for. Ibara shifts in his seat and rubs his eyes under his glasses. For a moment he thinks it would be nice to have an assistant that could help him out but that would never work with the amount of information he has to keep under wraps.

Or maybe having a second person to help would make him less likely to give up that information out of sheer exhaustion. He'll talk to the president about it tomorrow. He should make a note of that before he forgets. He should pack up and go back to his dorm for the day. Ibara lays his head on his desk and closes his eyes, just for a few minutes he tells himself. Just a few minutes of rest and he'll be up and back on his way to the dorm and actually sleep in his own bed.

Someone shakes him awake. It's gentle and Ibara thinks of the kids in those movies Hiyori makes them watch that ask for five more minutes from their parents. He's too dignified to do something like that though.

Someone chuckles and shakes him again and Ibara finally opens his eyes. It's lighter than he remembered it being when he went to...oh. He fell asleep at the office again. He buries his head in his arms, grumbling.

"Ibara." He bolts upright.

"Your Excellency! Why are you here so early in the morning?"

Nagisa laughs. "Someone told me they never saw you leave last night. Is everything okay, Ibara?"

He relaxes and leans back in his chair. God his back hurts but he has another long day at work. He'll make a note of that later.

There's something soft against his cheek. It's a little scratchy but--

"Your Excellency that is entirely--!"

"We're alone in your office Ibara."

He just knows his face is going to be as dark as his hair with how it heats up from the gesture. A kiss, even just on the cheek... He'll deal. He'll deal with it. It's not like it's something he wishes he got more often or anything.

"T-that's besides the point. Don't do it again."

Nagisa chuckles and Ibara resigns himself to spending his day with Eden's leader.

#message in a bottle #anonymous #ibanagi #i feel like ibara would never initiate intimacy with anyone like idk. it just feels like you have to initiate with him #and nagisa has like no shame at least in this regard. i should read some more eden stories from ! era especially #nagisa is a very... straightforward person in contrast to ibara's scheming. not that he can't scheme (re: conquest) #but he tends to just go full steam ahead for what he wants and if he doesnt have the personal motivation for it #he'll still go along if its beneficial for the other eden members or something they want to do #why am i doing nagisa character analysis in the tags. idk ig its just explaining why i am writing them this way #again i dont write eden that much but i hopeeeeee you enjoy it i do try to have an okay grasp on most of the characters in the game #i've been reading every event as it comes to the english server of the game and i. need to get better at reading ! era stuff #maybe i'll start a new story tonight before i do my nightly gaming sesh... yeah i should do that