[He smooths his hair back with a hand, trying to tame the half-sticking-up bedhead into something more presentable. It doesn't budge.
He could address her discomfort with his request... but that won't make it easier, will it? If their positions were reversed, he isn't sure he'd be able to promise to abandon her if she were in fatal trouble. He hadn't been able to with Goku.
It's a deeply hypocritical thing to ask of her, he knows. But he still needs to know that he won't bring her down with him if he continues to hunt for answers.
His smile is faint, but it comes more easily, more realistically than the pained laugh had.]
My clean clothes are all at the school, anyway. I'll have to bring them over here later.
[So are his monocle, his books -- and Asshole, of course. Probably. He flinches.]
Yuri, am I the only new shinki you've gotten this morning? There was another with me at the school.
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[He smooths his hair back with a hand, trying to tame the half-sticking-up bedhead into something more presentable. It doesn't budge.
He could address her discomfort with his request... but that won't make it easier, will it? If their positions were reversed, he isn't sure he'd be able to promise to abandon her if she were in fatal trouble. He hadn't been able to with Goku.
It's a deeply hypocritical thing to ask of her, he knows. But he still needs to know that he won't bring her down with him if he continues to hunt for answers.
His smile is faint, but it comes more easily, more realistically than the pained laugh had.]
My clean clothes are all at the school, anyway. I'll have to bring them over here later.
[So are his monocle, his books -- and Asshole, of course. Probably. He flinches.]
Yuri, am I the only new shinki you've gotten this morning? There was another with me at the school.