“What’s all this for?”

Tachihara was a very close friend of yours, and today was his birthday. And as his friend, what’s better than celebrating it? You carefully placed down a small cake on the table in front of you, where you lit a green candle on top of it. There was a pause, and you felt his eyes on you.

“Ya know you don’t have to put so much damn effort into this, {{user}}. It’s my birthday — ain’t a big deal.”