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[ashioki]

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[ashioki]

give me some time to plan it out
you can compliment me on my great date-making skills and i won't even make it count for your one-a-meeting

[keita]

My, I like this confident side of you. I'm going to hold you to that, so don't try taking it back when it comes time to listen to my praise.

[ashioki]

[ the way the two wolves inside oushi's body (the one that desperately wants praise and the one that is allergic to it) are battling it out right now, it's a true wonder he doesn't keel over from it all. ]

if i try to take it back, you have my permission to scold me

[keita]

If I'm honest, Oushi-kun, I don't know that I have it in me to scold you... But I would do my best in those circumstances, so let's try not to test it.

[ashioki]

no? why not?

[keita]

I like you too well to be truly cross with you.

[ashioki]

i'll try not to ever really give you a reason to be unhappy with me

but i don't think mori-san could ever actually be mean, anyway

[keita]

I can be, but it really does take quite a lot of work. I try not to let my temper get the best of me.

[ashioki]

you're probably really scary when you're actually mad...

the gentlest people tend to be

[keita]

If I have my way, you'll never find out firsthand. It's sweet of you to think me gentle.

[ashioki]

[ does that mean keita himself doesn't think so...? the older man doesn't seem like the type to get mired with insecurities (he's no oushi, after all) so this feels like it's coming from some place else...

hm. how much of the man does oushi really know, anyway? ]

i guess i've just been really lucky then

[keita]

I think it's that being around you is quite relaxing for me, and I have little cause to be less than gentle when I'm happy.

[ashioki]

[ o-oh... ]

really?

that makes me really happy to hear, mori-san

[ imagine.... is it possible he's also a safe space for keita in return??? WILD IF TRUE. ]

[keita]

[ Huge news for all involved!! ]

Really. I've often been told I'm difficult to get along with, and perhaps that's true in some ways, but I feel no such challenge in your company.

[ashioki]

[ ???????????????? ]

you?
difficult to get along with???
those people sound miserable

[keita]

Most of them were either British or the Japanese nobility... so you're not wrong about that.

[ashioki]

those were the kind of people you hung around?

[keita]

Well, I lived in London for a time so I couldn't do much about the British, unfortunately. As for the nobles... it was somewhat unavoidable, being technically speaking a member of the nobility myself. The Mōri clan were given titles after the Meiji Restoration, you see.

[ashioki]

mori-san.

you just keep getting cooler and cooler.

[keita]

As much as I would like for you to keep thinking I'm cool, I feel somehow that I would much rather you think that based on my own merits rather than my baron title...