BERTOLT

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Practice or whatever, right? [ That's kinda a weird, happy, stupid thing to say given how they've ended up. Nagako hops over helpfully, no longer a mamushi, and kicks a little dirt at Akira. ]

[perspire]

We'll find time for it. [ but he lets out a laugh at what nagako did ]

[bloodread]

[ Bertolt and Nagako get a look but they both know it means nothing. ]

...yeah? [ He is not an optimistic person. With her job done, Nagako flops at Bertolt's side, getting comfy. ]

[perspire]

I'm trying to think more positively.

[ it's hard. but with his free hand he is reaching out to pet her ]

[bloodread]

[ Pets! Nagako leans into them readily, licking Bertolt's hand a bit. Meanwhile Akira is doing his best not to die. Over the past weeks the amount of other daemons she's interacted with is tiny, so touch like this is entirely new. ]

Mn, that's cheating.

[perspire]

[ if only akira noticed when nagako curled around idi's snout. but bertolt will keep on petting nagako as much as she wants. ]

Hm, but if Idi was still here?

[bloodread]

Then I could make it even. [ Nagako lives here now. ]

[perspire]

I wish I could've seen it then. [ a sad smile as he pictures it, still petting nagako ]

[bloodread]

Who the hell knows what's happening with that either.

[ It is hard to brood when his daemon is being pampered, so this may be a glint of some kind of positivity. ]

i. literally had this tag open all night

[perspire]

Right. Thinking positively.

[ does akira want pampering too? ]

[bloodread]

[ , but he's kinda half-smiling. ]

Sure, we can call it that. I'm over vengeful ghosts, anyway.

[perspire]

Luckily I never wanted revenge.

[ ignore all the times in the gy that he pettily responded back to nine being petty ]

[bloodread]

What have you wanted here? [ Bertolt is valid. ]

[perspire]

-- To not stand to the side.

[bloodread]

I don't think you would. I don't lose to people like that.

[perspire]

I spent a lot of time doing that back home. It was... time for me to stop.

[bloodread]

I've never not known how to fight. I don't think I could stop even if I wanted.

[ Nestled against Bertolt's side, Nagako kicks a little. ]

[perspire]

--I had to learn quickly. Back home among the other Warriors, we believed in "might makes right": whoever was strongest got to decide.

[bloodread]

Yeah that's kinda true, but people cheat. [ He's seen it too much to think otherwise. ]

No one taught me anything, I was just pissed off all the time so I picked fights and got better at them.

[perspire]

Yeah, they do. [ he's definitely seen it ]

But that's how you learn to fight, isn't it? You have to just keep fighting and getting better at it.

[bloodread]

Well yeah. But I'm pretty sure most six year olds don't go around fighting people? [ He does not mind calling himself out here. ]

[perspire]

We're not most people. [ just outs when he started too ]

[bloodread]

[ A huff that barely hides a smile. Instead of saying that that made him happy, instead he asks: ]

Wanna ride my bike later?

[perspire]

Yeah, of course.

I can show you my 3DMG later too.

[bloodread]

That's your flying gear, right? You got to keep that here?