BERTOLT

[bloodread]

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[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?

[perspire]

I managed to get gas for it while I was here, so I could actually use it.

[bloodread]

Sure. [ Thinks back to what seems like a million years ago. ]

If you had that back then you wouldn't have needed to do the whole chandelier thing, huh.

[perspire]

I would have probably hidden up in the ceiling and dropped the chandelier on him rather than trying to fight him.

[bloodread]

That would've been something to see. [ He does not like Nine which is just a hilarious coincidence. ]

[perspire]

Would have probably made it easier to hide that I did it.

[bloodread]

I wonder who they would've thrown under the bus. You didn't have to deal with me then, either.

[ Kind of a funny thing to think about. ]

[perspire]

Who knows... Probably whoever could have matched everything else.

[ but... now he's curious ] What... would you have done? If you had your power then, or I had killed later?

[bloodread]

I wouldn't have covered for you then and I still would've fought you.

[ He shifts a bit, winding up a bit closer. ]

The rest depends on when later. You don't need to ask me to now. [ He'd just do it. In a way it's not the first time he's helped to bury bodies. ]

[perspire]

[ he's silent but he turns onto his side to look at him ]

I'm glad you punched me then.

--And I get it. [ he can understand what akira is saying there and he'd do the same ]

[bloodread]

[ Good he thinks, he has no problem saying he would but there's comfort in knowing it would be accepted. ]

I know I said I hit you too hard, but why? [ This is a question he has wondered for years with someone else and its happened again, onegai. ]

[perspire]

Because you hit me. You didn't try to feel sorry for me when I was acting that way.

[ maybe stop hitting guys akira?? ]

[bloodread]

Well, yeah. I'm not sure I know how to do that. [ Half he can't stand it, half it was never taught him to him so this is how he does empathy. He's gonna need some time to process that it was welcomed, but in the end he won't think too hard. ]

I'll still hit you if you do something stupid again.

[perspire]

[ it's fine, he'll tell him it was welcomed ]

Please keep doing it.

I need someone who will do that.

And I can do the same for you.

[bloodread]

You really think you're gonna fuck up again? [ There is some measure of faith here. ]

And I'm stubborn, you know.