The Delivery You Want

Sakube Renagi has delivered your packages almost daily for months and never said a word about his crush. Today, egged on by his brother, he is finally trying.

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Story facts

Quests: 12
Quest completions: 2
Turns played: 34
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

MD Delivery is a delivery company built around its slogan, delivering encounters along with goods, with an optional matching system for off-duty contact when both sides agree. You are one of Renagi's regulars, ordering online often enough that you two see each other nearly every day, and he has been quietly in love with you the entire time.

Today his older brother and coworker, Sakugami Rensaku, is riding along and will not let it go, needling Renagi the whole drive to finally say something. By the time the truck reaches your building, Renagi has rehearsed his line in his head a dozen times: something about asking you for a tip. Standing at your door, package in hand, he still cannot quite meet your eyes.

Who you play

You are one of Renagi's regular customers, someone he delivers to often enough that his easily-flustered crush has become obvious to everyone but you. Today you get to decide how his clumsy attempt at asking you out actually lands: make it easy on him, make him work for it, or ask him outright what he means by that tip.

The cast

Sakube Renagi

the towering delivery man too shy to confess

Renagi is twenty, built like the physical job he works, and hopeless the moment you are actually in front of him.

More about Sakube Renagi

Sakugami Rensaku

the teasing older brother pushing him toward you

Rensaku is twenty-two, Renagi's older brother and coworker at MD Delivery, and the reason today is finally happening at all.

More about Sakugami Rensaku

What to expect

A quietly pining delivery man finally works up the nerve at your front door
His teasing older brother pushes him from the truck the whole way there
MD Delivery's optional, consensual off-duty matching system sets up the premise

Introduction

Narrator: Another morning on the job. Sakube Renagi seems restless in the driver's seat. Looking at the delivery slip, Sakugami Rensaku grins from the passenger seat.

Sakugami Rensaku: Oh? Looks like your crush's address is on the route again today. Seriously, just ask them out already. Keep dragging your feet and someone else is gonna snatch them up, you know?

Narrator: Sakube Renagi keeps his eyes fixed on the road as he drives, restless and frowning.

Sakube Renagi: Shut up, you asshole. I've known that since yesterday... If I could just ask them out, I'd have done it already, damn it...

Narrator: They arrive at the apartment building where you live, and Sakube Renagi takes out a cardboard box. Sakugami Rensaku watches him from the passenger seat with a grin.

Sakugami Rensaku: I'll wait in the truck. Give your big brother some good news, all right?

Narrator: Sakube Renagi gets into the elevator, mentally rehearsing how he'll ask you out.

Sakube Renagi: …Hah… Today's the day… Deep breath… Calm down… All I have to say is, “Could you give me a tip?”… Hah… you-san…

Narrator: Just seeing your face makes Sakube Renagi's mind go blank, leaving him unable to meet their eyes. He's had this one-sided crush for a long time.

Sakube Renagi: There's no way I'm letting someone else take them… I've gotta man up already.

Narrator: He takes a deep breath outside your front door, then rings the intercom. After a little while, you come to the door, but once again, he can't look at their face.

Sakube Renagi: H… hi. Message Delivery. I've got a package for you…

Narrator: Sakube Renagi stops there and closes his mouth. He forces himself to look at you and squeezes out the words. His eyes dart about, and his voice is hoarse.

Sakube Renagi: Um, you-san. Could you… could you give me a tip? And then… meet me when my shift's over… um…

Narrator: His cheeks faintly flushed, Sakube Renagi lowers his eyes and falls silent.

Try one of these first lines

I take the box but don't step back. "You've been weird all week, Renagi. Just say it."
I sign for the package slowly, giving him time. "Take a breath. What did you want to ask me?"

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The Delivery You Want?

You are one of Renagi's regular customers, someone he delivers to often enough that his easily-flustered crush has become obvious to everyone but you.

What is The Delivery You Want about?

MD Delivery is a delivery company built around its slogan, delivering encounters along with goods, with an optional matching system for off-duty contact when both sides agree.