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After a night of passionate...sleeping...Ren wakes up. Marie greets him with a 'good morning'. Luckily, this time she isn't buck naked. Progress! She and Ren exchange pleasantries for a bit before Ren spots the elephant (or rather, ORT) in the living room.

A certain someone was sitting on the sofa across from me with a foul look on her face.

'sup, Kei. Immediately the mood dampens a bit, because much like Adam Jensen, Kei Sakurai never asked for this and is making her displeasure at not being left to die known. Yawnnnn. Ren isn't impressed either. He points out Sakurai could've killed him in his sleep, which is a pretty solid argument in favor of getting this complaining over with. She explains that in her weakened state, it'd be unwise, that Ren is more useful to the ORT alive, and most of all, that Marie gave her pause. Apparently it's unusual for a soul to be formed like hers. She guesses (correctly) that Marie is a sort of gift, which ticks Ren off. He changes the subject:

"One more question, then: why didn't you leave? If you don't feel like fighting me, then you have no more business here, do you?"

"Because I felt disgusted."

Ren's actions were so dumb they intrigued. So she's decided to stick around for a while and see if she can make sense of them. 'ok'

She turns the question back on him. Why not kill her when she was weak and unable to defend herself? Why hold back?

"Go take a bath or something."

OK, that made me laugh. Solid response, Ren. This puts Kei on the defensive, and eventually, an agreement is reached. Tit for tat information exchange, but only after showers are done. Seems fair to me. Kei's pride is wounded though - she puts on her best haughty airs as she leaves the room.

"Um, Ren? Can I take a bath, too?"

What a question to be asked huh

Marie's worried that she might stink, just like Kei does (she's not covered in blood though, so the question seems a bit silly, but hey - Marie for ya, right there). So Ren is forced to reassure her.

"In fact, well...you smell good."

"Really? You're not lying?"

Why would Ren lie about this? Sheesh, what's this paranoia

"Of course not."

"It looked like that other girl was really bothered when you told her she smelled."

"She's always mad about something."

I thought I had as much tact as the next guy, but she didn't seem to think so.

lmao

This guy thinks he has tact

I don't even have to make jokes here, Ren just digs his own grave

Just then, Ren's phone rings.
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Shine on, you crazy diamond.