It's real. [For a job with bells as his boss and cups and cutlery as co-workers, but,] ... More or less real. You'll see.
[If Tama was the one person in the world (in all the worlds, even, having met people from several of them now) who his patience would never run out for, then Kawase was the one person who could effortlessly get under his skin and nettle him in a way nobody else could. Not high praise, perhaps, more an inevitability from knowing someone since they were both barely infants, but that was how it was.]
I'm not asking you to put your life on the line.
[Don't get angry, don't get angry... but that backfires, because without that acting as a wall, there's nothing between him and what he knows. Minakami turns away, clenching his fists at his sides.]
...It's because I almost messed up. He said if it happened, he'd go in the river, to go back and fix it. [He glances over his shoulder, just for a moment: Please admit you know what I'm talking about.] ...we've tested it. The hashihime doesn't work here. He as good as told me he was going to...
[Don't say it.]
...that's why I need your help. If it happens again, you need to stop him.
cw: suicide mention
It's real. [For a job with bells as his boss and cups and cutlery as co-workers, but,] ... More or less real. You'll see.
[If Tama was the one person in the world (in all the worlds, even, having met people from several of them now) who his patience would never run out for, then Kawase was the one person who could effortlessly get under his skin and nettle him in a way nobody else could. Not high praise, perhaps, more an inevitability from knowing someone since they were both barely infants, but that was how it was.]
I'm not asking you to put your life on the line.
[Don't get angry, don't get angry... but that backfires, because without that acting as a wall, there's nothing between him and what he knows. Minakami turns away, clenching his fists at his sides.]
...It's because I almost messed up. He said if it happened, he'd go in the river, to go back and fix it. [He glances over his shoulder, just for a moment: Please admit you know what I'm talking about.] ...we've tested it. The hashihime doesn't work here. He as good as told me he was going to...
[Don't say it.]
...that's why I need your help. If it happens again, you need to stop him.