Inbox/Kit-Tea-Kat Café

[quietpeacefullife]

The Kit-TEA-Kat Café

An elegant café experience

The Kit-Tea-Kat is a twilight to dawn café run by Kira Yoshikage in downtown Bavan. You can enjoy all the expectations of a local coffee shop while experiencing the comfort of home. The first café was opened in Taiwan and has since become a huge hit in Asia. This luxury is now available to the residents of Ryslig, both monster and human alike. What is a cat café exactly, you ask? Well, it's quite simple. You drink your tea and have a lovely warm meal while in the company of wonderful animals that may entertain you with their natural kitty antics or perhaps spend the hour by your side. Here at the Kit-Tea-Kat café you'll find a wonderful dining experience as well as comfort. We truly hope you enjoy yourself at our cozy little café While this is a monster run establishment we do not serve anything but genuine food here. And so that no food goes to waste at the end of each work day we will offer up leftovers of the day to hungry monsters and humans alike. Getting started here is no easy thing and we here at Kit-Tea-Kat understand.

Menu

( Dinner ) Dinner is from 6 pm to 11 pm every night. Our dinners are light but warm. We can make a wide variety of soups. As well as quiches, casseroles and salads.	( Lunch ) Lunch is served froom 11 pm to 2 am and offers an array of light and warm sandwiches offering a wide variety of meats and vegetables as well as breads. Sandwiches can be served cold or warmed depending on the guest's request.

( Breakfast ) Breakfast is served from 2 am till 6am and all kinds of dishes are served. Pancakes, waffles, eggs, bacon, sausage. You simply have to name the item and it can be made for you. This is our guarantee.	( Desserts ) Desserts are served all day long. We have a wide variety of cakes, pies, muffins, cupcakes, cookies, and many others. All freshly baked daily. If we do not have what you're looking for at the time we can make it fresh, so long as you're willing to wait.

( Drinks ) We have several different brews of coffee as well as fresh tea leaves. Simply ask to see what we have in stock. We also make cappuccinos, lattes and many other modern day drinks. Along side tea and coffee there is juice, milk and hot chocolate. We do not sell alcohol.	( Cats ) Misfire, Dragon Attack, Bohemian Rhapsody, Jazz, Innuendo, God Save the Queen, Bijou, Cool Cat, Feelngs Feelings, Dancer, Dreamer's Ball, Mother Love, Nevermore, Princess of the Universe.

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Comments

[pomaded]

[That voice.

Immediately, his head snaps up. Is that who he thinks it is...? As the hairs on the back of his neck prickle, he searches his thoughts for anything that he might have done to piss off this particular ray of sunshine in his life. The last thing he even remembers is- ah. That's right. He asked him to check in on the cats, didn't he? It doesn't do much to calm his nerves- not when he's already so rattled- but at least he knows that he won't have trouble waiting for him when he walks into that living room.

Anyway, it sounds like trouble's going to meet him half-way. Out of the corner of his eye, he spots Kira in the doorway- and then, in a blur of soft fur, Hot Space. There are so many questions he should be asking right now and, though he can brush off that first comment as a casual joke, he's left even more confused with what Kira says next. By his standards, it's almost gentle and, from anyone else, it might even sound concerned. But he knows that can't be true. They might have collected an uncomfortable amount of shared experiences here but...]

... how long have you been here?

[When Josuke straightens up, he's holding both cats in his arms and his face partially obscured by Hot Space as the cat rubs his head across his hair. Probably a good thing. He doesn't know quite where to look and the confusion probably shows regardless of how much or how little Kira can see of his expression.

With his head down, he edges past Kira and into the kitchen. It's only now that he's here and starting to focus that he's noticing all of the subtle changes. Plates organised by the sink. Tea towel folded into a perfect square on the tabletop.

Wait- has he been messing with his stuff?!]

[quietpeacefullife]

I got your message a little late. [He brushes back a curl and sips at his tea. He should be telling his story a little quicker in case Josuke kicks him out. He doesn't want to walk back home in the sun...] I was busy being a corpse outside my café. That's some messy business... [That's an understatement really.]

So when I got your message your designated time of replying back had come and gone... I checked to make sure you were home before entering completely, just in case you forgot but you were not here and had not been here. So I assumed what you'd consider the worst. That's what you were expecting when you sent me that message, yes? Even when you do... it doesn't get easier. [Four deaths for him. Three in Ryslig... and now each death eats away at memories. He wonders what he's lost... and how important it is.] Ah, but to answer the question. I arrived on the eleventh, quite late. And I was intending to leave, tonight. And then I was going to periodically check every couple of days. So the seventeenth then the nineteenth and so on. If you didn't come back after a month or so... I was just going to take the cats back to the café. That was my plan, anyway... in case the worst should come to pass. With all the death in the air more and more people might not come back.

[Another small sip of tea as he turns to watch Josuke inspect his freshly cleaned and organized apartment. Nice, right?] Do you want me to leave...? [The answer is obviously a yes. He should be grabbing his jacket and putting on his shoes right now. And he'll need a bit of hustle in his steps to beat the sun. But he doesn't. He looms in the doorway to the living room, watching the teen carefully. It feels like there is more to be said. He's come here all three times after just reviving now, hasn't he. And Josuke has been present for two of them... And somehow it has made things a bit easier. Even if Josuke probably doesn't agree with how undeserved he feels those deaths are he never says as much. And if Josuke deserved to die or not doesn't really matter. It helps when someone is here for it. Even if you hate that person it's at least someone.

But perhaps for Josuke the cats are enough and his friends are enough and that's fine with Kira. He can leave at anytime. The cats are fine and that's all he was here for. He owes Josuke absolutely nothing.]

[pomaded]

[Oh. Well, it's nice to know that he's not the only one who's spent some time six feet under this month; this whole mess must have taken more than a few lives and he still doesn't even really understand what it's all about. Conduits. Corruption. It's all buzz words with little meaning and he doesn't care enough to investigate further or ask about how exactly Kira died.

... it doesn't get easier.

For a few moments, all he can do is watch him with a crumpled brow.]

We're not very good at being enemies, are we?

[It's really all he can think to say at first and it's only afterwards that he realises that Kira asked him a question too and his frown deepens again.]

I... I'll head out to Rohan's this evening but maybe...

[... maybe it'll be easier to have someone around. The first time he had died, he'd been able to come back to a busy household and his boisterous father and the thought of sitting around here for the next twelve hours by himself isn't a pleasant one. But he doesn't say it out loud. Instead, Josuke simply shrugs his shoulders and passes the two cats over to him.]

... I'm gonna have a shower. Do whatever you want.

[quietpeacefullife]

I would say not. [They're actually really bad at it. But it's better that way. Spending their days fighting each other is exhausting and he's glad that's not happening. Perhaps it'd be better to ignore one another but as he said far back in the beginning, Josuke is the only person he "knows". They share a lot so it's only natural to be drawn to one another especially in a place like this.

What's that saying they kept using in Morioh? Stand users are drawn to stand users... Here, with or without stands, probably wouldn't be any different.

Oh but! He takes the arm full of cats feeling nothing but confusion. Do whatever he wants. ????? What? Why?

He will say that this Josuke is much more agreeable but also quite disconcerting. Not that he wants Josuke to be his usual self, he doesn't like that self. The constant pain in the ass with quips but perhaps it's preferred to the downtrodden and very sad teenager.

Money is quick to hop out of his arms and make an attempt to follow Josuke. Hot Space on the other hand is content to stay in his arms for now, looking up at him expectedly. What are you going to do now, Kira?]

Tsk. Fine. [He's not a man that likes to be indebted to others. And he can admit that Josuke probably did help a lot when he came back to life both times. Things could have gotten incredibly ugly that first time and he kept his grief and starved mind in check. It would be discourteous to just leave it like this. He can admit that much.

He lets Hot Space squeeze himself between his shoulder spikes and neck as he moves around the kitchen. He's restocked everything and actually put good food in here so he might as well use it. It'll probably just go to waste otherwise, right? Or be made into poor quality food.

Now, normally he makes a dinner like meal at this time butt if they were human and existed in a normal time frame now would be breakfast time. Eggs and bacon... sausage too. Oh and hashbrowns and toast. Very comforting and good. A perfect meal after one too many glasses of wine the night before. Or an incredibly traumatic death.

He was serious when he said Josuke should eat. Food and then sleep. Eating on a full stomach is never advised but after something like this there can be exceptions.

Hot Space let's out a long meow at Kira, right in his ear.] Yes, I know. [He gives the cat a very small bit of cooling bacon.] You're missing out now that you're living over here. Well, I got this house fish so maybe he'll take a hint, hm?

[Well, at any rate when Josuke comes back breakfast or... dinner, whatever, will be served.]

[pomaded]

[It isn't long before the sound of the shower in the bathroom at the other end of the hall fills the apartment. It might have been a little easier if Money hadn't insisted on coming in with him but the kitten seems eager enough to stay by Josuke's side that getting wet doesn't bother him too much. It's only when he reaches for the shampoo that Josuke scoops him up and transfers him into the sink, pausing the water's rush just long enough for him to hear Kira in the kitchen.

While he's having a shower, a serial killer is making him dinner. This is not the situation he expected to come home to and, if his head were in a better way, he might been more amused or bewildered or both by it. As things stand, it's an effort just to not get soap suds in his eyes as he rinses his hair out, let alone sort through the increasingly complicated mess of their relationship.

When he finally re-emerges, he's dressed in loose pants and the oversized sweater Kira might recognise from Christmas and has Money tucked against his chest in a towel. More unusually, his hair has been brushed straight back and held in place with a headband. It's happened. He's turned into his mother. Sartorial decisions aside, he's just in time to see Kira feeding Hot Space a piece of bacon.]

Hey, they eat better than me some days.

[quietpeacefullife]

[Kira turns to look at Josuke who looks... well... not super great in any sense of the word. Perhaps he'll keep his scathing remark about dumpsters and coming out of them to himself.]

I should hope so. Anyway... here. [He hands Josuke the plate which has: fluffy eggs, crisp bacon, a few links of sausages, salted hash browns and toast. This isn't a hard breakfast to make by any means but for what it's worth, Kira cooks nearly every day for people so at the very least it's going to be quite delicious. Which is why he made himself a small plate too despite the fact he wanted to be in bed... well over a half hour ago.] Eat. [Hot Space makes a "subtle" paw reach, claws extended, for one of Josuke's pieces of bacon. He wants.]

And there's Chamomile tea. [Which will help Josuke sleep because the nightmares after dying are very real and very awful. At least, in his experience. Even now, on his third death, it hasn't changed. It always will be incredibly awful.]

You're not going to feel better tomorrow or even the day after but you can at least do the small self care things. Which... at this point is just doing the basics. Sleeping well and eating. But don't forget to go hunting tomorrow. Bacon doesn't stop monster hunger which is how we know we're truly living in hell.