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[aerodynamic]

HELLO

"Yo. Is this thing on?"

GOODBYE

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[aerodynamic]

[ he seems faintly unamused by this... ]

Maybe we should leave the performing to Tsukasa going forward. But all things considered this still isn't the weirdest thing I've seen here.

[depressured]

It isn't for me, either. And we didn't have to fight an assassin this time.

[ Low bar. ]

[aerodynamic]

Mafuyu, I think that should be more of a rule, not an exception. Please don't fight more assassins a while we're here. Or, like, ever.

[depressured]

I can't promise anything, Yosuke. The individuals that try to kill me are out of my control.

[aerodynamic]

Yeah, but ideally nobody else is going to try to kill you?!

[depressured]

Ideally, yes.

[aerodynamic]

[ sigh. ]

If they do, I'll try to be there and stop 'em.

[depressured]

Thank you. I'll try to stop them, too.

[ Noncombatant. ]

[aerodynamic]

[ he raises an eyebrow. ]

Still not a fighter, you know. [ just pointing that out. ] But I guess I could teach you sometime if you ever wanted.

[depressured]

Yes, please.

[ Hak has also offered.

Or.

Well.

Mafuyu asked. ]

[aerodynamic]

[ honestly good for her. ]

Then it's settled. When you're a little more healed, we'll go out and I'll teach you some of what I know. I'm used to fighting with both knives but it shouldn't be too hard to teach you with one.

[depressured]

I should... be fine by next week.

[ Not entirely "fine", but. Enough to move more smoothly. ]

[aerodynamic]

I'll trust you to know your limits. And if we need to take more breaks, we will. No big deal.

[ he's not going to tell her no, but he's not going to make her rush either. ]

[depressured]

Alright. I didn't know how to use bombs before the fight, but it worked out well enough. I'll do my best to learn quickly.

[ Bombs, knives... she's going to be a threat one day. ]

[aerodynamic]

You'll do great. Although I'm not sure where you're gonna get a ton of bombs, but guess that's not a bad backup.

[depressured]

I didn't expect it either. I can also do archery, but that's more ceremonial than combative.

[ Except when she'd had to be. ]

[aerodynamic]

How'd you even get started in that anyway? I didn't think that was really a thing a lot of people did.

[depressured]

I was asked to join the archery club at school and since they were the first people to approach me, I said yes.

[ Hm. ]

[aerodynamic]

[ ... he is starting to see the pattern here. ]

No interest in it before or anything? Doesn't seem like an easy hobby to pick up just because somebody asked.

[depressured]

It wasn't easy to gain the strength for it. But it was easy to understand the different steps of it, as I went. So I got better quickly.

[ She's unfortunately a very fast learner. ]

[aerodynamic]

[ he thinks about asking if she even likes it before realizing she might not actually have an answer. instead he settles for leaning a little more for warmth and thinking of how to rephrase that. ]

Think you'd keep doing it if the people who got you into it quit?

[depressured]

[ She would have an answer for once. Oh, well. ]

I did. The captain graduated. And I told my mom... I should at least let the juniors feel settled, since they look up to me as an upperclassman.

[aerodynamic]

[ in a way, this is an answer. ]

That's pretty cool of you to want to integrate them. Then again, if you were already putting in that much work to learn I guess it'd be kinda silly to just stop. Sounds like a good balance to your music.

[depressured]

When you're looking at the target, it's only the target.

[ Nothing else. It's centering. ]

[aerodynamic]

... does it make it easier when it's only the target? [ to focus and cut out the noise. ]