bite your tongue and choke yourself to sleep

you were automatic and as hollow as the 'O' in god

One might wonder whether Danta has quite forgotten that Astaroth is there while he's conducting his business in the Dusklight. And one would be right, but it's no slight on the other man's part - more proof that he's doing his job, and doing it well. Indeed, as he receives his drink, settles at the bar and a dark shadow falls across him, for a moment he's almost concerned that there's trouble brewing.

And so as Asta takes a seat beside him, offering small talk in lieu of ha ha, Danta, please duck while some drunk tries to take his head off, the Maverick's smile grows all the sunnier for it. "It is a happy day," he informs him, raising his drink in a cheers and clinking it against Asta's. "Then again, most of them are right now, don't you find?"

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