PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS - AKIRA

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[what is a bro fist




jk he will chuckle a little and return the fist bump

bro fist code]

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[this is very touching!!]

In the meantime. . . you don't happen to know if Yu made any enemies here, do you?

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[canned laughter as we smash cut to trial]

Not that he ever told me. He got pretty quiet this last week, honestly.

I figured he needed space, but... Maybe I should have checked on him.

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[hm. . .]

I tried to, but we just talked about-- other things.

[spoilers it was very gay pip and i handwaved it but we had fun]

Do you think he was worried about what 45 announced on Tuesday?

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Possibly.

Someone he really cares about is still at the temple, after all.

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Yeah.

[his expression softens a bit]

He told me about them. Not by name, just. . . that one of the gods was someone he cared about deeply.

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[He'll glance down at his cup, his smile flattening just slightly.]

Yeah. I didn't know them very well myself, but you'd have to be blind not to tell that he was incredibly fond of them. It was about the only time he'd smile nonstop.

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[he smiles a bit too just hearing that]

That's kind of dorky of him.

[but it's a fond little compliment-slash-insult]

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Yeah. Love can do that, though.

I'm sure you've done some dorky things around the girl you love, right?

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[hehehehe :3c]

That's a secret.

[but he lifts a finger to his lips and gives Guy a playful wink, which is probably telling in and of itself]

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[goofball]

Ah, to be young.

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[he is a goofball]

You're only as old as you feel, ojii-san.

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[...

That earns a small but rippling laugh, his smile bright in an honest way for the first time in this conversation.]

Hey now, don't go calling me names in another language. I'll have to start sending you some cruel letters.

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My heart can handle it. I'm a tough guy.

[but Guy's earnest laugh is nice to hear, especially considering the events that occurred last night]

[. . . and what awaits them in the future]

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[He'll wave that off, taking a long swig from his mug as he does so.]

I'll pin you a sonnet on your front door listing all my greivances, then.

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In iambic pentameter?

[shakespeare]

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...

Uh.

[What.]

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. . .

[WAVES A HAND]

Nevermind.

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...

I would add that onto my list of name calling, but I'm pretty sure I didn't understood a single word of what you just said.

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It's-- it's not important. It's not a name, it's just something we learned in school.

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Oh, see, there we go. No wonder I'm in the dark.

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I tend to do that.

. . . make jokes that people not from my world or world similar to mine don't get.

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[another laugh]

That's just what happens with cultural differences. Don't beat yourself up.

Besides, that's not what I meant. You learned that through schooling, right?

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Mmm. We didn't spend a lot of time on it, since it was English literature, but we touched on it in my English class.

[idk Japanese schools but that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it]

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"English." [voiced out, the word foreign] So, a specific form of language, or is it something different that would give it its own teaching of literature?