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[loveanddreams]

Count D | House # 1416
Spouse: Germany
Child: Maki Nishikino
Child: Ren Mihashi

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[loveanddreams]

Unlike the children in your world? Did you not get along with the younger ones where you came from?

[And with a nod, he continues preparing the tea. As it steeps, he spoons some sugar into his cup but pauses, recalling how Leon would yell at him for putting sugar into his tea.]

Would you like any sugar in your tea?

[cyanea]

A lot of the human children mistreat animals for fun. Poor Maki-kun is often played with for being so small and his shell makes him a target.

[ It's sad, really. ]

Yes please, but not too much.

[loveanddreams]

Ah, I see. [He had thought Mikuni was speaking of young animals rather than humans.] Unfortunately, it sometimes happens in my world too.

[He'll add just a little to Mikuni's cup then.]

I presume Maki is another friend of yours. What type of animal might he be? [An oyster perhaps? Or a crab or a snail?]

[cyanea]

[ Young animals could have their faults, but it was human children that Mikuni feared. ]

Oh. Yes, he's a hermit crab, so he's very small.

[loveanddreams]

Ah, I can see your cause for concern than. And their species is especially vulnerable without their shell.

[And he's pouring the tea now and setting the cup in front of his guest.]

[cyanea]

Yes. I've heard that when he first met Tatsumi-kun he was saved by him from children using him as a football.

[ Poor Maki. ]

Thank you.

[ He picks the cup up to take a sip. ]

[loveanddreams]

How horrid. I do hope your friend was okay afterwards. I presume Tatsumi was another friend of yours. What type of creature was he?

[Because he doubts Mikuni had human friends if they treated animals so poorly.]

[cyanea]

Oh, Tatsumi-kun is a human. He's a rare nice child that Wakasa-kun moved in with.

[loveanddreams]

Ah, I see. But who is Wakasa?

[Another friend of Mikuni's he presumes but an animal or a human?]

[cyanea]

Oh, he's a merman.

[loveanddreams]

Ah.I have had some encounters with their kind back in my world but mostly with the females.

[And he helps himself to a cookie. He'll wrap some up later for Mikuni to take home for the children.]

[cyanea]

You have? I know mostly mermen rather than mermaids.

[loveanddreams]

Yes, I met one the last time I went on vacation. I had one in my shop for a brief time as well.

[And he won't mention that one ended up eating the customer he sold it to...]

[cyanea]

Oh. That shop that sells creatures like us...

[loveanddreams]

If you are concerned for the animals, I never force any of them to leave the shop. They only do so when they find a suitable human to live with.

[cyanea]

Oh. Well, at least that's good. How do they end up in your shop in the first place though?