[ Goten, please never pick up or try to emulate anything about him. Shizuo wouldn't ever really be able to imagine what you could pick up that you should. Do like Izumo does, that's good and healthy. Maybe watch out how you emulate Hakkai, if that ever becomes a thing, but dear god. There was a small list of people that shouldn't be considered, and Shizuo put his name down on that personally. ]

Who said anything about giving up? If I was doing that, it'd just let you down.

[ Which he doesn't mean to do- at least he'd never do so on purpose. Though it's been happening more often as time went on, as unintentional as it'd been. ]

How about this- Try to find a time when we're both not busy. We'll figure something out.