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Come by the clinic when you can. It won't do for anything to get infected.
Call it an instinct that you might try to shrug those off.
Call it an instinct that you might try to shrug those off.
Good! Because I have plans but it's probably not going to get any easier.
[ there is a short pause before he sends another text along. ]
I'll come by in a little while, I guess. There's a place near there I can drop off some laundry.
[ multitasking. ]
[ there is a short pause before he sends another text along. ]
I'll come by in a little while, I guess. There's a place near there I can drop off some laundry.
[ multitasking. ]
Just walk on in past the front desk. They'll be aware.
id steer clear of majima for awhile if i were u. he aint gonna play nice right now.
[ well, now he has an appointment. it probably takes him a little longer to get over there than it should because of his dawdling but eventually, ryouma shows up.
he looks exactly like you'd expect someone to look after being furiously mauled by a swarm of magpies and then left to his own devices since. he's wrapped up and taped over whatever wouldn't quit bleeding on its own — to mixed levels of success — and the rest he's at least kept clean but
he's still a man mauled by angry birds??? he's good at ignoring the looks on the street. ]
he looks exactly like you'd expect someone to look after being furiously mauled by a swarm of magpies and then left to his own devices since. he's wrapped up and taped over whatever wouldn't quit bleeding on its own — to mixed levels of success — and the rest he's at least kept clean but
he's still a man mauled by angry birds??? he's good at ignoring the looks on the street. ]
i dont know and fuckin good. i aint fucking around. u say the wrong thing right now and ur gonna end up beat to shit at best.
They left your eyes, at least. That's a good sign.
[after making him sit on the exam table, she's going around him, cleaning and taping the various wounds.]
I'm not going to heal you immediately, and before you ask why, it's for politics. The Kasasagi wanted to make their displeasure public, and seeing you shrug off that message, so to speak, would irritate them more. You have to bear these for at least two days, so they feel as though they properly shamed you for this. They need to see that you were hurt.
[after making him sit on the exam table, she's going around him, cleaning and taping the various wounds.]
I'm not going to heal you immediately, and before you ask why, it's for politics. The Kasasagi wanted to make their displeasure public, and seeing you shrug off that message, so to speak, would irritate them more. You have to bear these for at least two days, so they feel as though they properly shamed you for this. They need to see that you were hurt.
im doing u a fucking favor. shut the fuck up.
whatever. i dont wanna see u get hurt, thats all. fuckin sorry for saying anything.
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I'm sorry, Izō. I know you're only trying to help.
You know I don't mind admitting when I screwed up but I'm having a hard time knowing what the hell I did to him and it pisses me off.
I'm not gonna play along the way they want me to. I refused to kneel to greater men than him and I'm not about to start now.
You know I don't mind admitting when I screwed up but I'm having a hard time knowing what the hell I did to him and it pisses me off.
I'm not gonna play along the way they want me to. I refused to kneel to greater men than him and I'm not about to start now.
and i aint playing middle man. u figure it out on ur own. just dont get ur dumbass killed. i know what ur like and what kinda shit u do, but this place is different. keep that in mind.
Ah, yes. The optics. No chance I could get another honeymoon out of this, huh?
[ he laughs and only realises after the fact that without the context that exists in his head that's an odd thing to say, perhaps..... ]
Ah—.. what I mean is the last time I had to do something for appearances I got kicked right out of Kyoto for awhile and ended up getting a free vacation, me and Oryou.
[ simpler times. but if he thinks about her it's only going to make things worse so he won't. ]
Anyway, I'm sure I can manage looking properly shamed. I'm the most hated guy in hell.
[ he laughs and only realises after the fact that without the context that exists in his head that's an odd thing to say, perhaps..... ]
Ah—.. what I mean is the last time I had to do something for appearances I got kicked right out of Kyoto for awhile and ended up getting a free vacation, me and Oryou.
[ simpler times. but if he thinks about her it's only going to make things worse so he won't. ]
Anyway, I'm sure I can manage looking properly shamed. I'm the most hated guy in hell.
Don't begin pitying yourself again, it'll ruin what the birds didn't take of your looks.
[she shakes her head and finishes covering another gouge.]
Your wife...this is the first I've heard you mention her.
[she shakes her head and finishes covering another gouge.]
Your wife...this is the first I've heard you mention her.
Talking about her just makes it worse, so I try not to. She's a part of me in a very literal sense, so our being separated with me here hasn't been easy. It hurts, but in a weird way 'cause I'm not entirely sure how to describe it..?
[ maybe it's because she's already working on patching him up that he feels he can talk about it. maybe he's not just crazy (which was a theory at least once). ]
I miss her, but I'm used to that. We'll see each other again. [ he says this without a shred of doubt. ] But it's more than that. It's almost physical but there's nothing for it, so it's hard to shake it.
[ the concept of "phantom pain" in that way doesn't really exist in his mind. he knows he feels something, and he knows he feels something he shouldn't because there's nothing there that should be hurting, so he just accepts it like everything else. ]
There's a woman in town who looks a lot like her, so I guess she's been on my mind more than usual.
[ maybe it's because she's already working on patching him up that he feels he can talk about it. maybe he's not just crazy (which was a theory at least once). ]
I miss her, but I'm used to that. We'll see each other again. [ he says this without a shred of doubt. ] But it's more than that. It's almost physical but there's nothing for it, so it's hard to shake it.
[ the concept of "phantom pain" in that way doesn't really exist in his mind. he knows he feels something, and he knows he feels something he shouldn't because there's nothing there that should be hurting, so he just accepts it like everything else. ]
There's a woman in town who looks a lot like her, so I guess she's been on my mind more than usual.
Keeping it inside will hurt you more than saying it aloud. Even now, admitting you miss her...it feels a little better than trying to ignore it, doesn't it?
[she'll say nothing about the woman. she relates, in a strange way - there's someone that reminds her of someone she's long lost, but she can't put that on their shoulders. just an ache, when she recalls its there.]
I'm sure the moment she sees you again, she'll run to you.
[she'll say nothing about the woman. she relates, in a strange way - there's someone that reminds her of someone she's long lost, but she can't put that on their shoulders. just an ache, when she recalls its there.]
I'm sure the moment she sees you again, she'll run to you.
Ah, I'll probably just be lucky if she doesn't eat me for vanishing on her watch again.
[ because ryouma has always associated with people who can kill him? he's obviously not being entirely serious, but there's a twinge of guilt in it, considering he knows how it affected oryou when he died. ]
I suppose. But what's the use in talking about things if nothing changes? It's better not to say anything at all if you're just gonna go on living the way it is.
[ because ryouma has always associated with people who can kill him? he's obviously not being entirely serious, but there's a twinge of guilt in it, considering he knows how it affected oryou when he died. ]
I suppose. But what's the use in talking about things if nothing changes? It's better not to say anything at all if you're just gonna go on living the way it is.
You already said it. Because you're living, Mr. Sakamoto. Even if things don't change in ways you want immediately, they still will change by virtue of you being alive. Each day is different, after all. With that said, why not talk about what you wish to? It's not as though I mind listening.
[she says it so gently, one could forget that this started with her having to patch him up from politically dissident birds. the tone she has, it's like she believes these words with all her heart, and she does.
she's just not the one to talk.]
[she says it so gently, one could forget that this started with her having to patch him up from politically dissident birds. the tone she has, it's like she believes these words with all her heart, and she does.
she's just not the one to talk.]
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