"Oh! Well, how kind of you," Haruka responded in turn, though she still looked a little confused. She eyed the source of the voice reminding Kaita of his manners, apparently surprised that another Navi was present. "Lan shuts herself in a lot, so I'm glad she has friends that will check on her. Come to think of it, you haven't told me much of anything about your friends as of late." "Th-there isn't anything... to say," Lan answered awkwardly. She wriggled around a little bit, attempting to slip into her poker face as Kaita walked up to her. It was hard to really him away when he was looking at her like that... but her mom was right there, so it wasn't like could say everything. Haruka walked back into the kitchen, but continued to engage with the so-called conversation from across the house. "The trip over... Hmmm, you must have met over the Internet, then?" she wondered out loud. "Where are you from, if it's not Den City?" "...Yeah, it's another city," Lan immediately interrupted, before Kaita could say anything would get her in even bigger trouble. Leaning closer to Kaita, she lowered her voice. "W-well, you did it. I mean, there isn't anything that would've broken it, or whatever, but..." Rock's hologram appeared on her operator's shoulder, interrupting her train of thought. "You guys should sit on the couch or somethin'," she suggested, perhaps as part of a ploy to give them a little privacy. She figured that Kaita couldn't lie even if he tried... but she still needed to keep Lan calm, lest she blow up over recent events yet again. "Can't tell you how glad I am that it was you at the door. The kid's been having a hard time lately." "Rock!" Lan hissed, and her eyes wandered just in time to notice an eyebrow raise from her mother. Lan didn't want to say anything! She had the right to remain silent!!

“That’s an excellent way of putting it, yes.” Aon nodded along, eager to keep this conversation back on the rails. “I think I’m in very capable hands then.” They clasped their hands together and leaned back a bit in their chair. If there was one thing they were good at, it was laying it on thick. And they had kept them on the line so far despite the outbursts. Their fingers pressed tighter together at the notion of having their concerns heard, as if theirs weren’t drowned out from the start in their mind. They kept that to themselves. “I…think I see where you’re going.” Of course it was something a police mascot could do. They just had to try a little harder at the kindness part. This would all come a bit easier once they were able to get their current state of being under control. “I’ll take anything you can give me, if we’ve got the time.”

“He says, ‘any time’, and he doesn’t want anything!” Roll brightly reported. “So, now!” “N-now?!” wondered Meiru, looking back at Roll with a deer-in-headlights expression. Next to Roll, Rockman raised a hand to his chin. “Guess I should go back home, then…” “No, it’s okay! I bet we’ll be fine hanging out in the PET. We’ll just mute it, so we don’t bother Meiru-chan and Netto-san.” With that squared away, Roll turned to Meiru. “When you finish your tea, you can always just set the mug down in your room. It’s pretty easy for me to open these portals at this point, y’know?” (Fiddling with the app to create an arm-sized portal was a fun mental image to Roll, anyway.) “It’s really been that long, hasn’t it?” marveled Meiru. “It feels like it wasn’t long ago we were finding the portal feature for the first time!” “Now, enough beating around the bush,” Roll said, dashing off a quick [MSG: ] Here we come! to Netto before urging Meiru, “Get up! Let’s go!” As Meiru got to her feet, Roll opened up the portal, the Navis returning to Meiru’s wrist before she stepped through. Meiru was entirely unprepared for the chaos on the other side, that made it seem like Netto hadn’t been expecting to invite her over at all; but it was probably just as obvious that she’d been caught off-guard by the invitation, with her sock feet and tea mug clutched in her hands. Perhaps this was just as spur-of-the-moment for him as it was for her? “Um… hi!”