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[loudmouths]

keigo higashino

photographer extraordinaire! studying at recolle university! let's be friends!

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[loudmouths]

OK yes but christ he just died

try bein a little more I dunno... empathetic or some shit

[appraiser]

Sorry. How do I phrase everything I said more empathetically? It's hard when just stating fact...

[loudmouths]

well i probably wouldn't have brought that up at all... it might be a fact, but it's a sensitive topic, y'know???

[appraiser]

But I can't answer your question unless I give a reason.

[loudmouths]

sure you could have!! you could have stopped at "i guess" and left it there!

it's less apathetic-sounding than just "dead people don't need phone numbers" or whatever

[appraiser]

"I guess" is kind of apathetic, though. Just leaving it as "I guess" means I don't care, and I don't want people to think that.

[loudmouths]

well you sound like you don't care already but

it's not really surprising, honestly, if you didn't know him

so i can't really fault you for it

[appraiser]

I care in a general sense. But not personally, no. I can't know what that feels like without knowing him.

[loudmouths]

that's fair enough...

anyway, uh. what was the deal with the pictures?

[appraiser]

It's a cat. I was telling Akira about all the things I love about the world.

[loudmouths]

oh, you know akira?

[appraiser]

Yeah! I'm going to ask Akira to be my friend! Are you his friend?

[loudmouths]

uh.

sort... of?

[appraiser]

How can you be sort of friends?

[loudmouths]

well, we don't know each other particularly well.

and i don't know that he'd wanna be friends with someone like me, anyway.

[appraiser]

Why not? I think it's possible to be friends with anybody. I want to be your friend too, somehow, if that's okay?

[loudmouths]

uh. just a feeling i have, that's all.

...but if you wanna be my friend, then sure. we can be friends.

[appraiser]

You won't know for sure if it's just a feeling. The only way you can is if you ask him. Like how I did, and now we're friends!

[loudmouths]

asking him to be my friend isn't really my style...

[appraiser]

I can ask him for you.

[loudmouths]

I REALLY DON'T THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA

[appraiser]

Why? If he says yes, that's good. If he says no, then I can ask why.

[loudmouths]

having someone else ask him to be my friend seems really weird!!

this whole thing is really weird!

[appraiser]

Then you ask him yourself! And let me know what he says.

[loudmouths]

i'm not gonna do that!!

[ is it possible for a 20 year old to be more childish than a literal child... ]