"It wouldn't have taken that long," Yugi repeated in a mocking tone as he and Miko separated. While she went to the kitchen, he moved toward the courtyard. There, he saw a number of tables in various shapes and sizes. One of them in particular... was quite annoying to look at. Some additional trees had been cut vertically into planks, those being used to form a table suited for that oversized throne at the castle's fore. Yugi stopped and stared at the table that could have easily been the starting framework for a modest house with a few adjustments, then looked at the Shadow Infantrymen who were expecting praise for their works. "I said big. Big... like for a big group at a big dinner. I didn't mean big as in somebody's gonna have to fee-fi-fo-fum their way over to it for morning coffee!" Yugi's chastising of the lower-grade soldiers left them looking a bit like kicked puppies, but he only sighed while looking back up at the table. "Take it down, turn it into the framework for a greenhouse or something. The rest of you, put these normal tables on the ants and send them inside," he ordered.

At the same time, Gojo was receiving Makima's instruction to wrap things up. They had to return to the Hunters Association, but... he already had them moving without bothering to change their activity. "What'cha got?" he wondered, thrusts happening between their bodies without the use of a single muscle ─ simply Gojo's power. Elsewhere in Tokyo, the recently reemployed Aki was reading a text with as many freaky emojis as sentences. "The fuck?" he grumbled through a dangling cigarette. He and Miko did have an agreement to meet for dinner somewhere, but here she was, offering something she'd cooked. That was disturbingly wholesome from some slutty False Ranker he'd met in a Dungeon Break and banged in the back of an airborne car with some other veritable stranger. On the other hand... it was interesting. How interesting? Well... You cook? he sent back. Of course, that wouldn't be the only notification Miko received in the moment...

[BOND ROUTE MILESTONE REACHED]

Bond Route: Hayakawa Aki

Intimacy has reached 25%.

Route Activated: Fox & Blade

Current Progress: 31%

Reward Unlocked:
- Active Skill: Silent Strike
Miko can activate Silent Strike to completely mask the sound of her next attack (15 second cooldown). The silenced attack gains greatly increased critical hit chance and piercing power.
- Passive: Fox's Insight
When undetected or attacking from stealth, Miko gains increased critical hit chance and better ability to read enemy weak points.