The jackpot's there, but... If this would, in anyways, help... I know it doesn't matter who of us wins, but I don't want it to be months later, when it could be days. Nobody should have to be here that long.
[ That's exactly what it is, and so Lea should understand, right? ]
If I decide to tough it out, perhaps I'll be able to win by the next couple days. But if I take a nap and go outside, the outcome of the next pull is going to be different. It's not a matter of time, but of consequence.
[ Taking a half hour nap doesn't mean the jackpot is 30 minutes later, it means he's throw into a completely different timeline and maybe in this one, there is no jackpot, ever. ]
Alright. You win. You are way more stubborn than I am. I'll bring you a coffee, but if I find you passed out on the machine, I'm carrying your noodle butt to a bed.
[ how dare he call anyone else a noodle when he looks like that ]
[ minato might be several inches taller than the babies he is used to forcefully having to carry around, but he is a skinny motherfucker, and that's why lea just tilts his head and looks at him critically ]
Alright. You asked for it.
[ and he's going to just straight up grab Minato off of the chair and hoist him up and over his shoulder like a potato sack. ]
[ He lets out a startled noise at being lifted up off the ground— it's not as comfortable as a piggyback ride, but he makes sure not to move so he doesn't accidentally get dropped. He'll be a good potato sack. ]
[ He won't say anything, but he is pretty impressed that Lea can carry him all that way. He'll take a 5 minute nap, just for him. (it'll be a 3 hour nap because he passes out and doesn't wake up until he has to pee, he's drank so much coffee ]
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The jackpot's there, but... If this would, in anyways, help... I know it doesn't matter who of us wins, but I don't want it to be months later, when it could be days. Nobody should have to be here that long.
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You think taking a nap and seeing the sun for fifteen minutes is gonna delay you by months?
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If I take a nap, I'm not going to wake up for the next fourteen hours... Do you know of the butterfly effect, Lea?
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[ that is the most basic understanding of it, but he refuses to ever not use layman's terms ]
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[ That's exactly what it is, and so Lea should understand, right? ]
If I decide to tough it out, perhaps I'll be able to win by the next couple days. But if I take a nap and go outside, the outcome of the next pull is going to be different. It's not a matter of time, but of consequence.
[ Taking a half hour nap doesn't mean the jackpot is 30 minutes later, it means he's throw into a completely different timeline and maybe in this one, there is no jackpot, ever. ]
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I dunno, man. I always thought it was kinda bogus. [ ruthlessly blunt. ] What if you playing non-stop has unforeseen consequences the other way?
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Could happen. It's a chance I'm willing to take, though.
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Well... I won't stop you. But if you start hallucinating, at least take a nap? That's usually when things go bad.
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[ It's a serious question. Once that's out there, he can't even be sure this isn't a hallucination, this entire conversation with Lea. ]
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Hallucinations can't hurt you, but that you even had to ask means it's naptime. Chop chop.
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If hallucinations can't hurt me, then it's fine, isn't it...? I'll sleep whenever I pass out next.
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[ he is considering picking minato up and bundling him in a blanket burrito ]
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[ There is no blanket here, only slot machines. ]
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Alright. You win. You are way more stubborn than I am. I'll bring you a coffee, but if I find you passed out on the machine, I'm carrying your noodle butt to a bed.
[ how dare he call anyone else a noodle when he looks like that ]
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Deal. You can also drag me by the ankles if I'm too heavy.
[ or if Lea is too much of a noodle ]
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[ he is probably teasing ]
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Yeah? Prove it.
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Alright. You asked for it.
[ and he's going to just straight up grab Minato off of the chair and hoist him up and over his shoulder like a potato sack. ]
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...But can you do stairs like this?
[ That's the real challenge here. ]
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Sure, but in this position specifically it might get annoying on both of us. [ mostly minato, mind. ] You wanna princess carry or a piggyback?
[ he's? offering? options? ]
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[ Potato sack carry. It'll be annoying for Minato but he doesn't mind, as long as it's annoying for Lea ]
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[ but? he goes ahead and? starts walking? he's going to go dump minato straight into bed for a nap, the fool.
he really is somehow stronger than the noodle arms should strictly permit. it's called.......... strength of the heart?
no it's just anime. ]
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[ He won't say anything, but he is pretty impressed that Lea can carry him all that way. He'll take a 5 minute nap, just for him. (it'll be a 3 hour nap because he passes out and doesn't wake up until he has to pee, he's drank so much coffee ]
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