As long as you're gonna go tonight, then I'll leave it alone. [ he does seem relieved though, like he's glad he doesn't have to fight another stubborn person to take care of themselves. he's busy filling the filter with grounds and adding water and hitting the button to make his drink though. ] Nine hours isn't long enough to successfully solve everything to our satisfaction, but it is way too long to be stuck in one room doing one intense thing. All of us need to blow off a little steam after that.
[ he leans against the counter though to face him, hands tucked into his pockets. ]
...if it's anything like the last two weeks, it's probably gonna escalate somehow. I can't say I'm looking forward to it either.
[ okay, that one actually makes him laugh a little. ]
I'm definitely not growing, so...[ but he shakes his head. ] I know myself. I'm not getting any real sleep tonight regardless, so might as well try to do something productive with the rest of the evening. I was going to go back to the library later.
[ WELL. he. god. okay, well, after last week he's...gotten a little more comfortable with the idea, and even if he doesn't know ichiban that well he doesn't exactly think it's fair to keep it vague. so he uses his metal arm (which also, shoma, for fucks sake, go get that unscrewed and removed.) to gesture to himself. ]
This is it. It's...gonna be it for the rest of my life, because it's how genetic engineering works.
[ he sort of smirks because, well, he's thinking about something he's not going to actually tell him but he shakes his head.
WHY WERE YOU IN JAIL FOR THAT LONG WAIT. ]
No. I was normal for a while. [ the coffee, conveniently, is finished brewing so he turns away so he can grab a cup and also not look at him. ] And then a dick of a scientist used my body for human experiments to discover the key to immortality.
[ being here also means he's talked about it more and has more time to get angry that he's perpetually 12 years old forever. ]
[ it happens to every yakuza character idk what to tell you? ]
Wh... what the hell were you saying, then, about being a normal kid from normal Tokyo?! That's definitely not normal! What the fuck, man!
[ . . . oh. wait. once the shock wears off, he has the clarity to realize you don't just tell a guy his life is a fuck because he's pretty sure he knows that best of all!! cue him looking a little admonished even before shoma can react to it. ]
Er, sorry, that was... really fucked up of me to say, huh. You probably already know, but I, uh, have a bad habit of just sayin' shit without thinking about it beforehand.
anyway it's probably a really good thing that ichiban, like, immediately apologizes because his face in cause in that kind of awkward in-between where it's like he'd started registering the sentence and was about to respond, but he doesn't. rather, he just...frowns softly. ]
Yeah, it kinda was. [ he just comes out to say it because, yes? ] But it's okay, you're not the only person I know like that. You might be familiar with her.
[ dry. the amount of stuff mizuki just says sometimes... ]
...anyway, like I said, I used to be growing normally before the experiments. And even now I am mostly normal? I was a few weeks out from graduating from high school. I was thinking about college if I could get the money together. My sister used to work in Akiba. My dad--[ there's the very faintest and most brief verbal fumble here. ]--used to be a television host and a comedian. No magic powers, no monsters...nothing like that.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
[ he leans against the counter though to face him, hands tucked into his pockets. ]
...if it's anything like the last two weeks, it's probably gonna escalate somehow. I can't say I'm looking forward to it either.
no subject
Okay, no offense or anything, but how the hell are you gonna say we need to blow off steam when you're drinking coffee at this hour?!
no subject
looks at the coffee
looks at ichiban
looks at the coffee again.... ]
This...doesn't count. [ well now he just sounds embarrassed. ]
no subject
no subject
I'm definitely not growing, so...[ but he shakes his head. ] I know myself. I'm not getting any real sleep tonight regardless, so might as well try to do something productive with the rest of the evening. I was going to go back to the library later.
no subject
Dude you're a smart kid, you should know puberty's gonna hit you like a freakin' truck in a couple of years or so.
no subject
ah. ]
Um... [ um............ ] No. Uh. You really, really need to trust me on this one, Ichiban.
no subject
no subject
This is it. It's...gonna be it for the rest of my life, because it's how genetic engineering works.
no subject
[ PLEASE HE WAS IN JAIL FOR FROM THE LATE 90S TO THE MID 2010S WHAT IS FUTURE SCIENCE ]
no subject
WHY WERE YOU IN JAIL FOR THAT LONG WAIT. ]
No. I was normal for a while. [ the coffee, conveniently, is finished brewing so he turns away so he can grab a cup and also not look at him. ] And then a dick of a scientist used my body for human experiments to discover the key to immortality.
[ being here also means he's talked about it more and has more time to get angry that he's perpetually 12 years old forever. ]
no subject
Wh... what the hell were you saying, then, about being a normal kid from normal Tokyo?! That's definitely not normal! What the fuck, man!
[ . . . oh. wait. once the shock wears off, he has the clarity to realize you don't just tell a guy his life is a fuck because he's pretty sure he knows that best of all!! cue him looking a little admonished even before shoma can react to it. ]
Er, sorry, that was... really fucked up of me to say, huh. You probably already know, but I, uh, have a bad habit of just sayin' shit without thinking about it beforehand.
no subject
anyway it's probably a really good thing that ichiban, like, immediately apologizes because his face in cause in that kind of awkward in-between where it's like he'd started registering the sentence and was about to respond, but he doesn't. rather, he just...frowns softly. ]
Yeah, it kinda was. [ he just comes out to say it because, yes? ] But it's okay, you're not the only person I know like that. You might be familiar with her.
[ dry. the amount of stuff mizuki just says sometimes... ]
...anyway, like I said, I used to be growing normally before the experiments. And even now I am mostly normal? I was a few weeks out from graduating from high school. I was thinking about college if I could get the money together. My sister used to work in Akiba. My dad--[ there's the very faintest and most brief verbal fumble here. ]--used to be a television host and a comedian. No magic powers, no monsters...nothing like that.