ik i'm taking forever to update and i'm very sorry about that y'all
also 'plz update' comments do not motivate me to write At All so please avoid those bbys
anyway have a little preview of the next chapter for now
peace

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So apparently the yakuza don't like Uno.

You'd say it sucks for them more than anything else, except in this particular situation it's definitely the most shitty for you and Eri. Eri, who is currently trembling and clinging to your shirt with a kind of terrifying amount of force. Eri, who you are willing to — okay yeah this sounds dramatic but it's true, she's a sweet, sweet cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure — die for. And yeah, you, who's going to be doing some dying probably.

Oh, and you found out these are yakuza members! For plot convenience reasons of course, but it's not like that information helps you so anyway.

There's a bark of laughter from one of the masked dudes, a guy who is currently hanging off the ceiling and has some very greasy-looking hair, plus is holding a beer bottle or two to boot. Icky. You're definitely going to die, but hopefully it's not to him. He just laughed at the notion of Uno, so if anyone's dying it should be him anyway. But you digress. Back to the situation at hand.

They're closing in. There's assorted laughter. You're holding tightly onto Eri, eyes flicking back and forth as you consider how likely it is that you could escape if you just make a break for it. Channeling your inner Iida so that you can do mental maths for once, you come to the conclusion that it's about a nought point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero... add a couple more zeroes, zero one chance (0.0000000000001). Great.

You're gonna do it anyway.