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[evidentiary]

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[compendiem]

So Retrospec can give out useful gifts sometimes too, huh...

[ while he gets a blinding bow and Dave gets shitty sords ]

[evidentiary]

I suppose it depends on if you had anything useful in your past life?

[ also she's leaving the restroom now so ]

[compendiem]

[ He trails behind her, trying to think of whether he had anything useful in his part life, but a lot of it has been him at school or around town. His hands were almost always in his pockets, but they were empty. The sword. The bow. ... He's not sure he can call those useful, when they give him the added trouble of needing to learn how to use them.

Hm.

Oh. ]

I had these headphones I was always wearing. Pretty comfortable. Strange taste in music. But that would be nice to receive.

[evidentiary]

Your headphones rather than the taste in music, I assume?

[compendiem]

Can his taste in music be transferred to me?

[evidentiary]

I don't see why not. It seems that emotions and feelings can be...

[compendiem]

...Did you hear that from somebody, or is that experience talking...?

[ Minato has his misgivings about the Engrish rap that seems to be AU Arisato's preferred genre, but emotions and feelings... having those doesn't sound too bad, to be honest. Not when his own emotions and feelings feel blunted on a good day, nonexistent on a bad. ]

[evidentiary]

I've heard it. I haven't had that problem too much myself. We...mostly seem to agree on things, that girl and I? Although we took different paths in life.

[compendiem]

What's alternate universe Kirigiri like? A punk rocker?

[evidentiary]

A detective, actually. [ PUNK ROCKER KIRIGIRI...heaven help everyone ]

[compendiem]

[ He took "different paths" to mean severely different paths, okay. But he would have supported Kyouko in any of her punk rocker dreams. ]

So... from uncovering mysteries of the human body, to that of the world.

[evidentiary]

Yes. She was...very well trained for it, I think...?

[compendiem]

How lucky we are to have you, then. Having so many mysteries here that need solving.

[evidentiary]

...Well, I'll do my best, at any rate. What do you know of your own past?

[compendiem]

Hmm... Alternate universe Arisato is a student. Either a bowman or a swordsman, or both. And his special talent is pissing people off.

[evidentiary]

...Is that a special talent?

[compendiem]

He was very good at it. Made a girl almost cry after just three sentences.

[ But tbh that girl was sort of unstable and Minato thinks he could have accomplished that in two. ]

[evidentiary]

...Is that a talent or just a lack of tact?

[ people who can't talk: kirigiri kyouko ]

[compendiem]

[ Yeah, that's an impressive lack of tact yourself, Kyouko. But that's something Minato appreciates, being direct and to the point and leaving no question that he just sucks at talking to people no matter what run through life he's on. ]

Both, maybe. I can feel the kinship between us.

[evidentiary]

I'd say not to put me with you, but so far you've proven reasonable company...

[ is that a compliment ]

[compendiem]

I'll take that as a compliment.

[ Instead of "oh my god, don't lump me together with you" ]

[evidentiary]

It wasn't meant to be an insult, anyway.

[ but it wasn't meant to be a compliment either... ]