Talk of the North

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[Get ready to google image a bunch of instruments]

Thinking about how perfect your plan was going, you bit the inside of your cheek to try not to smile. The day following your radio debut, people (both Japanese and American) would stop and congratulate you, thanking you for bringing music back to this stone world. It melted your heart and you'd blush, but at the same time, you wanted to giggle like a supervillain. You did once when you were working in your studio, you didn't notice Nikki come in then going back and closing the door as soon as she saw the dark energy emanating from you.
"Step one, dropping their guard: complete" you smirked.
Indeed: right now you've successfully established yourself as a musician, a musician and nothing more. Brody still had some doubts, you first knocked on his door as a diplomate after all, plus with the interest Xeno had in you, he must've had a feeling you were more than that. For that, you had to subtly bring up Xeno into one of your conversation.

The opportunity came up when one day, when you and Brody were in the storage room where all your instruments were to list off the ones that weren't complete yet, so that the craft team would finish them later on.
"Oh, and there's also the pipe organ in the back."
"It is finished."
"Huh?" you looked at him, then at the instrument, you could only see the different sets of keys and the control panels on the sides. "Where are the pipes then?"
"Xeno told me to put them inside the walls," your eyes widen at him explanation. "they go all the way outside. We don't have that much chimneys you know."
Your gaze wandered up, dumbfounded.
"Has...Has it been tested?"
"Nope."
Pipe organs were loud, that was a fact, if you played one you had to expect to be heard by many people. And with this one, given the size of the castle, the entire United States might hear you. For a brief moment, Brody noticed a faint look of horror on your face, and he couldn't understand why, probably because organs were scary...? You looked down.

"...To be honest, I still don't really understand why he would go through all this effort to make all those instruments for me." you lied, acting like you were sad but didn't want to show it. "Do you know?"
He shook his head after a few seconds.
"It was a breathe for him." he just said.
In your head, you thanked Gen for teaching you how to tell if someone was lying. And right now he was being honest. Made sense, Xeno was more reserved than Senku. Brody being just his colleague, he probably didn't share his 'soft-power' plan, or maybe, like Senku would do, he was simply waiting for the right time to be all dramatic about it. And by the way, this plan of his would only matter if they found another musician talented enough - because it's not like he intended on actually looking for you right? That'd be too much of a hassle. - so that'd be another reason for him to not bring it up in the first place. So, you could use the fact that you were penpals to your advantage, you could make Brody think you knew another side of Xeno, which...you used to think you did.
You smiled faintly and looked down.
"I... I like to think he did it because he was hoping I'd be revived, that we'd finally see each-other. I like to think that, in his crazy logical brain, he saw me as a friend, like I did."
Saying this made your heart twist. You'd actually hate for it to be the case, after everything he did. You sighed and changed the subject, Brody looked at you for a moment, you could see a certain empathy in his eyes. You mentally fist bumped yourself. Now that you put that sad factor in his perception of you, he might drop his guard too, we'll see.

Now, on to step two: when you'd do your show, you'd stay on a bit longer, you'd make your intros longer as well. Of course you were genuinely having fun and it was all delightful, and like you said, you had a knack to be liked by people, so nobody really complained, not even Brody. After all, what you were doing didn't have anything to do with the cold war-like situation that was happening right now. You were just doing your thing.
To the Americans, you were just a musician, acting for the sake of your craft. Which, to be fair, was true, but only partly.
'Was this how Senku felt when we were taking over Ishigami village?' you thought. 'Probably. Either way, I get it now!'
You sighed with a smile.
"Taking over the village, feels like so long ago. How nostalgic~." you chuckled. "Now, onto step three!"
You happily left your studio and went to see Brody.

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