Private Make me a real boy

"Well, in that case, we should try to find something we're both interested in."

He glaced upwards as he considered. He was, after all, still on a students diet. So while he definitely had a lot of things he was curious to try he had to be a little bit frugal about it.

"...Have you tried chocolate?" He eventually said. "I can't normally eat it, but most of my classmates seem to really like it, so that's something I've been curious about for a while."

Leo smiled as well, less toothy than hers, of course, but he was happy to see she was looking forward to the idea too.

"Yeah, let's go find somewhere to eat."

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It was a short walk back into the city proper, and an even shorter walk for him to find a corner store to buy themselves the chocolate. After getting the goods he'd gone to find a bench to sit down on, holding a block of milk chocolate in his hands.

"So uh...do you wanna try them at the same time?"

Leo was similar. Despite how mundane this all was, chocolate would, after all, could potentially kill him, so he was a bit more nervous than he should be.

After a moment, he broke off a piece and put it in his mouth.

"...Mmm! That's...that's good, wow." He said, singular eye lighting up.

He popped another block into his mouth, savoring the taste along with her, swallowing before speaking again.

"I'm guessing you don't have food like this in, uh, hell?" He asked, scratching his head as he did.

"I see, must have been, um...well, I guess demons are probably better acclimatised to that kind of weather than I would be?" He scratched his head. "But not getting this is unfortunate."

He glanced downwards briefly as he chewed his chocolate. He couldn't help but feel awkward, despite how Mal seemed to be enjoying herself. Was it always going to feel this weird? Gany and Rhett seemed like they had stuff like this down easy.

"Is...there any food you've wanted to try?" He asked. "I want to take advantage of this new digestive system, so if there's anything you'd want as well..."