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"He wasn't dead." Mina tilted her head.
"Nope. He disappeared so he could turn what the boys do into something bigger."
"That last part, where Connor wags his finger, and Murphy finger guns the other prisoners?"
"Setting up for a third movie that didn't come out. Though they did keep teasing it." Síat looked pained.
Mina looked at the clock. "If we leave now, I can be home by 9. Or..."
"Or nothing. There are some rules we don't break."
Mina giggled. "Okay, but who told you I had to be home at any specific time?"
"Nobody, really, but I'd rather not find out the hard way that your da's got a collection of ex boyfriends's heads mounted on his wall."
"Ha! It's my mom you want to worry about. Daddy's a big softie."
"That's worse, Fhéileacán Bándearg."
As Mina again rode on Síat's shoulders, she looked a little nervous. "So... Did I pass?"
"Were you trying to?"
"N... No..."
Síat laughed. "It's a compatibility test, luv. You don't try to pass, you just act as you would any normal day. But yes. You passed. And now we're on our way to the test I have to pass."
"Daddy's going to like you. Mom's probably gonna be scary for the sake of being scary, but if you're as charming with her as you are everyone else, she'll like you too."
「Okay, so they were in Ireland at the start of the second movie.」 Mina said as she pointed for him to turn.
「Yeah. The rolling green hills. Never been there myself, I lived in Saggart. Other than the golf course that was converted into a housing space for Asylum Seekers, there's hardly any green there.」Síat kicked a can against a wall and caught it as it bounced back towards him, tossing it into a street bin.
「Did you ever play golf?」
「Eugh, no. It looks fun, but all those chemicals they use to keep the grass green are horrible for the environment.」
Mina looked down at him. 「I wouldn't have pegged you for an environmentalist.」
「I'm not, but I rather enjoy oxygen and being able to go outside without mutating under solar radiation because there's no Ozone.」
「...Fair. This is me.」
Síat walked up to the door, apparently forgetting to put Mina down.
Knock knock-ka knock knock...
Mina winced at the unfinished knock, and reached out.
Knock knock.
Síat smirked. Mina didn't see it.
The door opened, and Síat found himself looking down at a man with slightly darker, less saturated pink skin than the girl on his shoulders.
The man's eyes tracked up Síat's frame, and his eyes, black sclera, orange-gold irises, just like Mina's, widened in shock.「Holy sh-...」
Síat held out his hand. 「-it's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Ashido. Síat Rahill, UA hero course.」
Mr. Ashido took his hand in a nervous handshake. 「Kiki, darling, our Mina brought us a bo-... A ma-... A very LARGE male I'm REALLY hoping is a teenager...」
Síat laughed. 「Fifteen, sir. Sixteen in September.」