★★☆☆☆ week 3. friday. yu.

[haw]

[ ain't this a kick in the dick. after this week's body announcement, majima tails yu as the younger boy storms away from the courtyard, waiting until they've gotten far enough into the temple to be relatively isolated from anyone else. ]

Oi, Narukami-kun. Hold up.

[ his voice carries its usual tenacity, but as he addresses yu now, he isn't being overly brash like people have come to expect of him. ]

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[covenantal]

[ ... ]

I don't know if I'd call it that.

[ there's a weariness to it, like he's said these words before. ]

Call it something I have to believe.

[ softly, mostly to himself ]

Who else is going to?

[haw]

[ kid. buddy. you okay. ]

Uh... ya sure you're just a high schooler? Like, shit, ya almost sound older than me.

[covenantal]

[ blink ]

Pretty sure. I turned seventeen a couple months ago.

[ what's the problem????????? don't all high schoolers talk like this

... but after a moment he'll sigh, anyway. ]

I shouldn't have said that. I don't mean to disparage anyone.

[haw]

Ya just sounded like... you were tryin' to shoulder the burden of all this on yer own. Ya know that ain't healthy, right?

[covenantal]

[ ...

softly ]

Yeah, I've heard. Not usually this early into the conversation, though.

[ with quiet, self-deprecating humor, but he's considering majima very thoughtfully. ]

Can I ask you somnething, Majima-san?

[haw]

I'd be kind of a jackass if I said no, right?

[ he honestly doesn't mind, but he's just kind of used to coming off as a jerk that it's a natural reply. ]

Shoot.

[covenantal]

What do you think went wrong?

[ quiet.

with the meeting, he means. ]

[haw]

[ ... hm. his expression very quickly morphs into a grimace. ]

Simple—it's just like Disorder-han said. There are some people here who're damn good actors, an' they played the rest of us just the way they wanted.