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[chemex]

This feels like a good time to remind you I've not met you in person, and Tsujima died fifty years before I was born.

[nullificates]

You could have just said I'm better looking than an old man, I'm assuming without knowing anything about it!!!

[chemex]

I'm not gonna lie to you about someone I've maybe seen a bad black and white photo of once in my life, buddy, I'm not that guy.

[nullificates]

Lame, my feelings mean nothing to you?!

[chemex]

I don't lie to save feelings! Lies don't help, what if you saw a photo later down the line and this guy was some radiantly beautiful runway model unbeknownst to me? Then what!

[This is the most ridiculous conversation he has had in a long time and he is friends with both Ryuji Sakamoto and Yusuke Kitagawa,]

[nullificates]

My ego is big enough to ignore that fact!

[chemex]

Okay but I also definitely still have no idea what you look like.

[nullificates]

Pretty handsome.

[chemex]

Okay but is that pretty, or handsome? There's some subtle nuanced differences there.

[nullificates]

Some people can be both.

[chemex]

Wow, humble much?

[nullificates]

Why be humble when you can be pretty handsome!

[chemex]

[It's some time, then, because he and Akechi argue and tussle and argue some more, and he almost falls off a roof and Kotone mentions that Dazai was the one who broke Goro's finger. He naps on the rooftop with her for a while, and then coming back to the Inn he decides: why not.]

So are you gonna tell me why you broke Akechi's finger, or am I gonna have to figure that out on my own, too?

[nullificates]

Ah, word travels fast. Now that I know why he knew so much thanks to you, it surprises me he wanted to play chicken with me over this.

I thought you knew them, it's all.

[chemex]

...Dazai and Sakaguchi? I told you they both died years before I was born, Akechi is barely older than I am.

[A sigh, and he massages the bridge of his nose in an attempt to fend off a headache.] So what, he taunted you?

[nullificates]

I'm not going to tell you more. I did what I had to do, the information was life or death, and he refused to tell me more than just drop the names of people from my life and not tell me how he knew.

[chemex]

[He closes his eyes, inhales, exhales, and nods. That... that sounds like Akechi.]

I'm sorry, he's difficult. If-- ..., if it's doable, if you two wind up in another altercation like that, can you try to involve me? Is that an acceptable compromise?

[nullificates]

It won't happen, and I will not involve you.

(kotone wouldn't forgive him.)

[chemex]

[Infuriating..., Sigh.]

...All right.

[nullificates]

Thank you for your understanding.

[chemex]

You're welcome, I think.

[nullificates]

Ah, good kiddo.

[chemex]

You know my name, can you not call me kiddo?

[nullificates]

It's affectionate! Not derogatory!

Sure, Akiddo-kun, I mean, Akira-kun!

[chemex]

Oh my God.