[Sora stares at Ichiban for a moment and then laughs. It's...not really like the chuckling she tended to do, it's far more open than that.
Takes a few seconds to stop laughing]
There's something about the way you put that that's a little endearing.
[Baby steps, huh....she nods]
I'll try. Despite everything, I did use to protect the human realm where I'm from. I'll just...try to put some feeling into this one, for once. For the bunch here I'd like not to see fall.
[Less 'I do it because it's what it's expected from me' and more 'I'll do it because I want to', even though she still has to grapple with a whole lot of things she doesn't understand yet, emotionally]
[ hearing sora laugh with genuine amusement gets him to grin back at her as the tension leaves his body, leaving him to settle back and relax. that familiar warmth returns to his face as his eyes crinkle at the corners, flashing his teeth in a wide smile. ]
...I mean it, Jingu-san. S'long as you're serious about starting over from the bottom and working your way back up to become someone you're proud to be—someone who'd be proud to meet your Pactbearer in the next life—then you'll always have one person willing to back you up. I wanna see you become a better you.
Fine. I'll do it so your time talking today wasn't wasted.
[She had just come to put a word of thanks since she hadn't done it before, and somehow it went in a way that seems to have motivated her to try in a more earnest manner. It's...well, humanity is interesting. She can't deny that]
Wanna know a secret? No matter how this went down, I wouldn't have thought of it as a waste. I shot my shot, you know? I can't control how other people are gonna react or what they'll do. If they agree with me, awesome! If they don't... well, all I can do is my best.
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Takes a few seconds to stop laughing]
There's something about the way you put that that's a little endearing.
[Baby steps, huh....she nods]
I'll try. Despite everything, I did use to protect the human realm where I'm from. I'll just...try to put some feeling into this one, for once. For the bunch here I'd like not to see fall.
[Less 'I do it because it's what it's expected from me' and more 'I'll do it because I want to', even though she still has to grapple with a whole lot of things she doesn't understand yet, emotionally]
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[ hearing sora laugh with genuine amusement gets him to grin back at her as the tension leaves his body, leaving him to settle back and relax. that familiar warmth returns to his face as his eyes crinkle at the corners, flashing his teeth in a wide smile. ]
...I mean it, Jingu-san. S'long as you're serious about starting over from the bottom and working your way back up to become someone you're proud to be—someone who'd be proud to meet your Pactbearer in the next life—then you'll always have one person willing to back you up. I wanna see you become a better you.
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[She had just come to put a word of thanks since she hadn't done it before, and somehow it went in a way that seems to have motivated her to try in a more earnest manner. It's...well, humanity is interesting. She can't deny that]
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