And what a neglected mailbox it had been! Various official notices crinkled and intermixed with copious amounts of junk mail, and Kurumi was wise to leave her correspondence in a casing that distinguished itself from the mounting pile of responsibility scarcely a friend to wolven hearts. Pesky compromises necessary for societal integration, though one with many years to acclimate as he could make a case for his blatant floundering, as ignorance and aversion were hardly viable excuses after so long. Bills, credit alerts, failed charge notices ranging from gyms to magazine subscriptions not blatantly indecent though wholly irrelevant to their owner's reported aspirations — unless Yamcha secretly harbored a fancy for squeezing into women's swimwear. It all made for a nice bed of which the shady loiterer may lay her letter.

Be it a result of swallowing whatever fears kept him away from emptying the large metal box, or the curious coloration inviting enough for his attentions, she had succeeded in putting a fire under her AWOL benefactor-to-be. The initial result, a midday ring either too early or too late to catch the mobile inclined, straight from his terribly inconsistent landline, prone to doling out rings of vacancy or simply cutting straight to a pre-recorded message telling of inactivity. Evidently, the phone bill must have been buried down deep.

A voicemail would have to do, its orator fraught with a spirit of anxiousness implicating him aware of his radio silence.


《 He'hey! It's, uh… 'The Mighty Yamcha' here. So yeah, *I've* had a hectic couple of weeks over here! Maybe my phone might have kicked out on me a couple of times, so if ya tried to get through, I'm sorry! Look, I still haven't forgotten about our business thing, so like… don't start lookin' for another crew just yet. If you wanna shoot me a call or somethin', pick a time and place or whatever— this guy's down for it. Soooo… yeah! Oh! Uh… Ah-ah-hem. Thank you for callin' Yamcha and Puar! We look forward to your continued patronage, and leave us a nice review! Alriiight. Have'a good one. 》

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