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Bitch Slapper: That’s so dumb, Rin-chan! Even for you! It’s just a shitty piece of paper. A man is its own owner.
Rin: If it has a price tag, it means someone else owns it.
Bitch Slapper: Come on, stop talking shit girl. Where’s my parrot?
Rin remains unphased, untouched, as if she was deaf and blind to the sound of non-believers.
Rin: If I pay him and then I own him, I could also take the money I paid him. He would be winning nothing. He can’t be the owner and sell himself.
The man with the blazer laughs, opens his mouth, lifts a finger, and then just, stays there, stuck in time. Blinking, looking at the back of his hand, his mouth twists open as if to shoot fire, yet not even air comes out.
Kyosuke: …then, who’s the owner?
Crook: Yeah! Who would you even pay then?! It’s stupid!
The lowlives are angry, but more than angry, they are scared. Scared of the truth.
Rin points at a pebble.
Rin: That’s mine now.
Bitch Slapper: Huh? Congratulations, you own a shitty rock. And?
Then his lips get sucked into his mouth.
Bitch Slapper: No way. Really?
Kyosuke: Hold on! Does that mean that the guy belongs to whoever looks at him first?
One of the yakuza walks up.
Big Yakuza: I looked at him first.
Then one of the students walks up.
Big Student: Did you claim dibs, motherfucker?
Big Yakuza: The fuck did you say?
An old, wise man walks between them, a man of the dark world, sporting a massive pompadour. Looking the student in the eye, he crashes a bottle of glass against his own head. Then he falls and stays there. After some seconds lost to time, violent threats spawn anew like flowers after winter. The guy with the price tag, alien to the context a few feet from him, drills the tips of his fingers against his head as the mechanic points at Miku’s face and talks.
Desperate Student: Wait!! Stop!! How would we even know who owns the guy then?!
Desperate Yakuza: Damnit! Now how do we know who called dibs first?!?!
They look at Rin, of course.
Rin: We can’t know who saw him first. We can’t know who called dibs first.
Kyosuke: Meaning?
Rin simply picks up the rock.
The voices die.
