She doesn't react to to his last dig, beyond waving a hand dismissively at a woman who looks anxiously between the two of them as if to ask "will she pay for it"? Fine. She will do the honorable thing, she will handle the shame of everyone's eyes and the whispers of other diners wondering what had just happened, what the relationship between those two was, if they should even stay near such a volatile person...
Hayame becomes stone. She eats the rest of her meal in silence, and then takes the meal Gen had left behind, finishing every bit of that, too. Her own additional order arrives, and she brings chopsticks to her lips until there isn't a single grain of rice or scale of fish or ounce of miso soup left. By then, most of the other lunch patrons have fled. She arranges with the owner to return the next day to disgrace herself by becoming a pack horse, assisting them with loading and unloading ingredients and stock before the restaurant opens. She works there for several days, but she does not return to eat there.
If Gen does, though... He will be informed that his meal was already paid for, by "that horse woman you ate with before". They can only offer a shrug as to why.]
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She doesn't react to to his last dig, beyond waving a hand dismissively at a woman who looks anxiously between the two of them as if to ask "will she pay for it"? Fine. She will do the honorable thing, she will handle the shame of everyone's eyes and the whispers of other diners wondering what had just happened, what the relationship between those two was, if they should even stay near such a volatile person...
Hayame becomes stone. She eats the rest of her meal in silence, and then takes the meal Gen had left behind, finishing every bit of that, too. Her own additional order arrives, and she brings chopsticks to her lips until there isn't a single grain of rice or scale of fish or ounce of miso soup left. By then, most of the other lunch patrons have fled. She arranges with the owner to return the next day to disgrace herself by becoming a pack horse, assisting them with loading and unloading ingredients and stock before the restaurant opens. She works there for several days, but she does not return to eat there.
If Gen does, though... He will be informed that his meal was already paid for, by "that horse woman you ate with before". They can only offer a shrug as to why.]