15th Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Voice

[uccellodifuoco]

[Filtered from Kotomi | Unhackable 5% 75% by Selphie]

[Yes, he fails at filters.]

General question for all of you. What would you-...

[No, that's not a good idea. He doesn't need that, she has told him several times, right? She likes books, which means a book is probably the best gift, he doesn't need to ask what to give her. A book will do. She also liked the plushies he gave her before so there's that, maybe he can get a teddy bear for her on top of it, since if she loves books that much she probably has read a lot of them.

Then again, maybe that only applies to the ones in her world, and there are way too many books in the world to read them all anyway. Yes, that sounds like a good question. He clears his throat a bit.]

Book recommendations. Anyone knows of interesting books to read? Novels, tales, science, any theme will do.

[She probably will enjoy it either way so... Should he ask that it won't be too complicated? No, even if she reads them to him as well he can ask if he doesn't get something. It's a gift just for her after all.]

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[justicereigns]

Yeah, I don't recognize it.

Is that all? And you think I'm bad at relationships.

So how come you're hiding her?

[uccellodifuoco]

I never claimed to be better, I probably won't be. I've never been, neither am, in a relationship, unless you count the experiments.

[Esmeralda and he were just friends, even if he loved her, even if she seemed top love him so much, there was no time or place for a relationship to happen. And Kotomi is... Kotomi.]

I'm not hiding anyone.

[justicereigns]

You didn't tell me about her even when I asked. [Sulky tone. He thought you were bros man! Even if he is currently a girl.]

And if you don't like her, why go to the effort?

[uccellodifuoco]

I don't remember you asking about her.

[You never asked "did you get chocolate already?" or "do you have a girlfriend?".]

What effort?

[justicereigns]

Not specifically. [Screw it, going to be interrogator forever.]

Finding book recommendations.

[uccellodifuoco]

So you didn't ask.

[Ikki can endure your interrogations, you know it.]

They are for my own interest.

[justicereigns]

So then you don't care about what kind of books I recommend. Even if I talked to her so I have some good ideas.

[Tsuns right back at you dude.]

[uccellodifuoco]

I said I had no preferences. Just not horror or terrible bad endings, I've enough of them without books.

[He has also talked to her. In fact he probably already had his daily chat with her. Talking every day, as much as they could, that was the promise.]

[justicereigns]

[Grins.]

So you already know what she likes?

[You can't escape his interrogations, even when you try.]

[uccellodifuoco]

I hope you turn back to normal soon, you're starting to have hearing problems. Why should I care about what she likes or dislikes? Those books are for me.

[justicereigns]

[Rolls her eyes. This is something teenage girls do, he will try it out. It's fun :3 No wait, he will not admit that it's fun >:|]

So that's it then? You're just going back to how everything was before? [Gets up to make coffee.] Seems a little weak.

[uccellodifuoco]

[Ikki has a lot of pride, but he has never claimed to be strong, remember that Smoker.]

It's how things should be.

[justicereigns]

Should? By whose definitions? This coming from the man who defies everyone else's ides for his own?

[Yeah, he's going to do one of those steely-eyed stares... that Ikki told him not as a woman because it doesn't work. Oh well. He tries anyway.]

[uccellodifuoco]

[That stare only makes him smile, Smoker.]

By my own definition. Got a problem with it?

[justicereigns]

Depends. I kind of thought making oneself miserable was my turf.

If you like her, don't run from it.

[uccellodifuoco]

It is. I don't see anyone else here doing that kind of thing.

[Specially not him.]

Good advice, I didn't know you were an expert. I'll be sure to follow it if it ever comes to it.

[He doesn't like her, he just tolerates her and doesn't mind her. She's not terrible annoying, that's all. And he has enough pride to not want to fail on his word even one given during an experiment, that's all.]

[justicereigns]

[Arches an eyebrow.] Suit yourself phoenix.

[Makes them both a sandwich and offers Ikki to him, while slipping Hyoga some cold cuts.]

Though you know, they say if a girl and your pet get along, you should never lose one or the other.

[uccellodifuoco]

[Oh, he does. Don't worry.]

I tried to lose both of them when I saw they got along. Hyoga wasn't favorable to the idea so they don't get along that well.

[justicereigns]

[Oh. That's a little alarming.]

You tried to get rid of Hyoga?

[uccellodifuoco]

I told him to leave for a while, he ended dragging people here instead and when I told Kotomi that she could take care of him since they got along, the bastard bit me.

[justicereigns]

Because he cares about you idiot, or he wouldn't have brought her back.

[uccellodifuoco]

I think you're messing things, I'm talking about way before the experiment. She had never been here to begin with so she couldn't be "brought back". It happened while you were having your sex change.

[justicereigns]

By "back" I mean back to the apartment that you kicked him out of.

[Smoker actually knew the timing, since Kotomi mentioned it was wwhen she first arrived.]

[uccellodifuoco]

No, he did that because he's stupid and doesn't get what "wanting to be alone" means.

[justicereigns]

Being alone isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[The other present he got from the Malnosso.] Hyoga's pretty smart, I bet he picked up on more than you realize.