INTERMISSION C
“Urgh, I guess photos can also bring back embarrassing memories.”
Shinra had pressured and pressured her to save the manga drawn with her own shadow, and Celty ultimately compromised by putting the files deep into several layers of subfolders.
Once that was done, she began looking through even older files. But then she realized that beyond a certain point, there wasn’t any digital camera data, and she felt a sudden and surprising sense of loss.
“Umm, where’d we put that photo album?”
“Why?” Shinra asked.
Celty rifled through the shelf and typed on the PDA at the same time. “Well, I was having so much fun reminiscing about these photos that it made me want to see pictures that are even older.”
“Oh, I can help with that! I have a twenty-year-long album of my observation of you, Celty. We can look at it together and renew our certainty of your charms! Let’s stay up until the morning singing your praises, Celty!”
“How much of a narcissist do you think I am…?” she snapped, then found a photo album at the very end of the bookshelf. “Besides, I’m not looking for pictures of myself. I’ve looked the exact same for ages.”
She flipped through the pages until she found a picture of a young Shinra and inwardly smiled.
“Ah, now this brings back some memories. You didn’t have glasses yet.”
“Aaah, no! Put it away!” Shinra exclaimed at the picture of himself just around the start of elementary school. It was a rare show of displeasure from him.
“You were such a good, sweet kid back then.”
“Really?! If you like it that way, I’ll take off my glasses whenever you want!”
“…And you are neither of those things now…”
“That’s just how much I’ve grown as an adult,” he said, undeterred. “In fact, I can show you just what a manly mature man I’ve become! We can start by performing some mature-audiences-only activi-terblherlbrbg!”
“You wish you could be described as ‘mature,’” Celty snapped, holding Shinra’s face in her palm before he could leap on her. “Remember how you made a total mess of your year’s coming-of-age ceremony?”
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