<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/3f/cb/51/3fcb513183b094b643a10c74bed38b1e.jpg)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Date Toshiro<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>June 15th, 2021 | 11:20PM<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>Black District, SOPHE Monitoring Van<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Nerissa, Ryusei, Kyless | Mentions: Albion, Leasick<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong>Receiving Surveillance (Comm dialogue<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Proper Club Attire (https://i.imgur.com/XwpZxiH.png) / Intentionally semi-mussed black hair<br/><hr/>A look of relief spread over Toshiro's face at Nerissa's stated comfort with his lecherous gaze. While ordinarily he wouldn't have imagined her to be the type uncomfortable with appreciative leering, the combination of nearly intimate close quarters, the fact that they were on a mission, and their position in SOPHE's hierarchy made Toshiro hesitant on whether or not he should enjoy the undeniably gorgeous sight of her. “Maybe the higher ups were worried that you'd get too much attention. We're just trying to get the eyes of one monster, but as fine as you look, you'd have the whole club asking you to dance, me included.” Then smiling, Toshiro threaded his fingers behind his head and leaned back in his chair with a look of contentment and spoke with eagerness, “I'm looking forward to our date more all the time, between you and Albs I'm certainly not going to run short on nice scenery.”<br/><br/>Toshiro couldn't help but let out a laugh at Nerissa so easily picking the nugget of truth out of his joke regarding Albion's appearance, “I guess Adonis might be pouring it on a bit thick, but he's definitely got a sense of style that does it for me most of the time, classy as can be that guy. As for how he looks passed that, well... more than anything I guess it's like the song says,<em>'I've grown accustomed to his face.'</em>” Toshiro couldn't help but inject a level of Dean Martin crooning into his brief dip into the English quote as it always seemed the appropriate tenor to take when discussing Albion. Still, despite this notable affection, Toshiro couldn't help but sigh in mounting exasperation at Nerissa's telling him that the the silver haired stoic had updated his wardrobe with something far more temperature appropriate, “Let's... let's try and focus on the mission.” While he seemed to develop a renewed interest in the monitors as he slumped forward in his seat, he wasn't so preoccupied as to not notice the fox eyeing him like a piece of meat, but his mood had soured past the point of trying to find humor in it.<br/><br/>Listening to the back and forth chatter for a while in silence, Toshiro only half turned his head to regard Nerissa as she spoke regarding her necklace's sentimental value before replying slowly, “That's alright, I didn't mean anything by it.” After a few more moments of not elaborating on this point, the scientist wordlessly removed the blue bow tie and set it down on the snack laden surface in front of the two. "If you don't mind me asking, was it a gift from your husband?" Toshiro was well aware that this question might be inappropriate for their environment, but in Toshiro's eyes the relationship had never been one for withholding questions our of respect for social norms.<br/><br/>Ryusei was correct in his assessment that Toshiro wasn't the type to blame Kyless for the attack that the young Tetsuda would certainly face a reckoning for later on. At Toshiro's hearing Kyless' request through Ryusei, he answered with a more official sounding tone than usual, “<strong>I brought two pears, they're hers if she does well. Tell her once we have the threat in custody, the two of you can have a few supervised hours of moonlight. The supervision is not up for debate.</strong>” There was no doubt that others on the communications channel would be less than thrilled to hear about this, but the research head wasn't about to let that stop him. If SOPHE was to establish a relationship of cooperation with Kyless, she needed to be able to see some benefit of such a relationship to her, and to the best of Toshiro's ability he wasn't about to let the predisposition of himself or others get in the way of that.<br/><br/>That being said, he'd be naive to allow Kyless any measure of unsupervised freedom given her history of escape attempts, and to this end he was glad that Ryusei had been able to so quickly develop what seemed to be a genuine connection with the trickster. While Ryusei might not be the most senior member of SOPHE or the experienced in dealing with this sort of situation as far as Toshiro knew, this was more than offset in the scientist's mind by both Ryusei's accomplishments up to this point, and the highly disciplined upbringing he must have had at the hands of Azmodiel, a demon that Toshiro held in the highest regard. The additional supervision stipulation that Toshiro placed on their moonlight tryst was less out of distrust for Ryusei's capability as a guardian, and more out of the lingering fear that plagued Toshiro's mind since Kyless' earlier disastrous reaction to the magic nullifying bracelet. Even though he had lightened the magical restrictions on the device to a small degree, the occasional sneeze he caught coming from Kyless on the cameras still kept Toshiro from being at ease.<br/><br/>Toshiro's eyes widened at the sight of Nerissa withdrawing Albion's pouch of herbal relief, a spluttering cough turning into a laugh as he looked incredulously between the pouch and Nerissa's innocent expression. “Nerissa we can't... look don't get me wrong, any other time I'd be all over Albs' secret stash, but we gotta stay sharp right now.” Squinting and furrowing his brow in unintentional judgment towards her poor rolling practices, Toshiro closed his eyes for a moment before sighing, “Tell you what, that'll be... that'll be our reward for a job well done.” Patting the surfaces of his skin that had so audibly collided with his surroundings earlier, Toshiro smiled reassuringly before adding, “Besides, it sounded a lot worse that it was, and it would take something much worse to slow me down. Thank you for the offer though.” Raising the glass that Nerissa had brought to him earlier in a gesture of appreciation for both it and the vast comfort offered, Toshiro took a long sip of the orange drink before returning his gaze towards the bank of monitors.<br/>