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Is it going to be enough?

[they're an ice cream shop... they need to have a pretty consistent stock.

ugh, this is awful. and roxas will express as much when he lift his foot to try and get to the mop.]

Ugh. I think I have ice cream in my socks... gross. [he thought stepping in puddles sucked, but this is arguably worse.]

Enough grumbling.

[That's just said with a soft sigh, though, because he feels it. He feels it. This is disgusting.]

I doubt it will be enough to properly open today, but we will likely have our hands full cleaning this place up regardless. I will put an order in for more for tomorrow.

[And then....elbow grease and scrubbing.]

Right...

[well, at least leon seems to know what to do here, because roxas...

doesn't, quite frankly. aside from getting the place cleaned up. that part he can do, but trying to prepare everything else isn't something he's too qualified to do. he's not the teenager with leadership skills here at all.]

I can't believe how bad it is. [less of a grumble, more of an observation.] If only something this bad happened when there were more people working here.

[at least then they'd be able to split the workloard a little easier.]

[He's helping. Sort of. At least he's trying a little. Needs must.

He makes an aggravated noise at Roxas' observation, but it's directed at their absent co-workers and not Roxas.]

Yes, leaving us to deal with such a mess is certainly irresponsible of them. [They may be in the Nexus Code but THEY DID IT TO GET OUT OF CLEANING, CLEARLY.]

But even so, we have little choice but to deal with this situation as it is.

[well, it's either that or ceres intentionally screwing with them, which is something he could definitely believe here, honestly.]

Right. It's probably gonna take all day to take care of this. What a mess... [he's definitely also going to have to buy a new pair of shoes since these will have permanent ice cream squish at this point.]

Where should we start? [as in, where specifically would make the most sense? leon may be a prickly type, but roxas knows that leon is also better at managing situations like this than he could ever be.]

[... He just heaves an aggravated sigh at that, shaking his head. Honestly... he supposes he may as well take charge here, if only to make sure they don't have to wade through ice cream muck forever.]

We may as well clean up this mess first. It won't matter if we bring in new supplies if we cannot even move around here.

[Time to...get out the mops.

Ugh.]

I meant what side should we start from... there's so much of it that I don't know where is better.

[give him a little bit of credit here, leon! he's not that dumb.]

[Leon doesn't give people credit, not even his co-workers.]

Does it matter? [Don't look at him..... he had maids for this.]

It is so much a mess that it will hardly make a difference, I imagine.

[god, leon. check your privilege okay, not everyone's got maids!! what a bocchan...]

I guess. I thought maybe it would be easier to start with a plan so we're not just... moving the mess around, or whatever.

[...A long suffering sigh.]

Fine.

We shall start from the back and move towards the entrance. Presumably if we are able to push some of this mess onto the street, the street cleaning robots will handle it.

[team make-other-people-clean-up-the-mess]

[this is a team roxas can subscribe to, honestly.]

Okay. That makes sense... too bad they won't come inside and do the rest of the job, huh. [it's fine though, roxas will just get started on it, however grudgingly.]

[They have a plan!! It's a shoddy plan, but it's a plan nonetheless, so Leon will find the other mop and get to work. He's not particularly pleased about all of this, of course, but... that doesn't mean he'll shirk his work or slack off.

He's a bocchan, but at least he's a hard-working one.

Time to get to mopping all of this gross ice cream slop up.]

[at least he gets that much credit. not that it matters all that much to roxas, who knows nothing of bocchans or anything of that sort. he's just glad that for all that leon is an asshole about things, he does carry his weight pretty well.

at least it should help in getting the initial cleanup done pretty quickly, right?]

[Splitting the work between the two of them helps quite a bit--soon enough, they can see the floor. They'll have to clean up more later, especially in the nooks and crannies, but for now, this is a good start. Leon inspects things for a moment, mop in hand, before he nods shortly, breathing out a quiet huff of air.

Alrighty then.]

... Next, we need to clean the counters, tables and chairs. [A beat.] Perhaps with a hose. [That would make it faster, probably.]

[it's definitely a lot better than sloshing around in a lake of gross ice cream concoction, that's for sure. roxas isn't even trying to look at those nooks and crannies quite yet.]

A hose? [that seems kind of extreme, but...] Oh. yeah, I guess that would probably make it faster. As long as we don't mess anything else up.

[fortunately, using a hose is not exactly difficult here.]

[Yeah, he's just going to offer up tartly--]

If you would rather scrub them by hand, please, feel free to do so.

[Leon will be using a hose.

Which thankfully is not hard to find and not hard to use, thank goodness. they can just spray down tables and chairs and so many other things........... what happened to their poor ice cream shop...]

That's not what I meant.

[it's fine, roxas will just be the one to pick a fight while they work. because:]

Is there some reason why your attitude always sucks?

[Nah, he's just a grumpy edgelord.]

If you take issue with it, then cease making pointless suggestions and focus on the task at hand.

[Stop being a dick, Leon.]

I can talk and work at the same time. You don't have to act like I'm some kind of idiot, you know.

[as leon continues to prove his point.]

That does not mean your words are any more sensible, simply because you are capable of multitasking.

[Leon Magnus: still a dick.]

They're sensible enough, you're the one who's always got an attitude about everything.

[maybe try being less of a dick, leon.]

[How about no!!!]

If you are expecting me to attempt to make friends with you simply because we happen to work in the same establishment, you are sadly mistaken.

Who said anything about being friends?

[roxas doesn't get this leap in logic, since he's honestly not trying to befriend leon at all.]

It's just a pain working with someone who acts like he's better than everyone else.

[That's because that's...most of the speeches he's heard since arriving here........

ahem.]

Yes, well. Be as it may, I have no intentions of changing my attitude whatsoever. This is a temporary situation and nothing more.

[sorry, roxas isn't a sunshine protag, he's not interested in changing jerks into friends!!!!]

Just because it's temporary doesn't really mean you should act like you're above it. We're in the same position here...

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