❀ Yukio Okumura

[cranelike]

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[cranelike]

Of course not. I'm a treasure, after all.

(An imperial treasure, a cultural treasure, considered one of the best-preserved and most beautiful swords in the country still, even a thousand years later.

Tsurumaru is quiet after the memory passes, waiting just a moment for Yukio to collect himself before he speaks,)

You're alive.

(Explain.)

[reflash]

I am. [He says quietly, after a minute.]

It wasn't... it wasn't what it looked like. [Not exactly. It didn't work, after all.]

[cranelike]

I'm not the type to push others. If you want to run, then run. If you wish to stay silent, then stay silent.

(Kind of like... how he just let Yukio run into the barrier that first week. He won't press Yukio to say or do anything now.)

But silence allows the imagination to wander. Without explanations, conclusions are drawn.

(So it's up to Yukio if he wants to elaborate or not now.)

[reflash]

It's... complicated. [he doesn't want to give all the details.]

I needed answers, and that was the only way to get them. [but that isn't quite the expression of someone just brushing that off as some kind of training, or answer-gathering necessity.]

[cranelike]

Do you think I'm simple?

(That he can't handle a complicated explanaation?)

[reflash]

I didn't say that. [Tsurumaru could handle a complicated explanation, Yukio could explain it clearly and simply if he wanted to, but he really doesn't.]

[cranelike]

(Just! Not going to say anything for a little while. He'll just wait patiently and let the silence hang a bit.

He's a menace. He's literally just trying to see if he can make Yukio uncomfortable.)

[reflash]

[There's a pause, then...]

I needed to see if I could die.

[cranelike]

(Just going to reach out and

try to grab Yukio's ear???)

[reflash]

Hey! [he says, a little sharply as he's grabbed]

[cranelike]

(Puuuuuuulls,)

It's normal.

[reflash]

What's normal?!

[cranelike]

Your ear.

(Still holding it, btw.)

[reflash]

Of course it's normal.

[cranelike]

So why wouldn't you die? Are you actually like your brother?

[reflash]

No. I'm human.

[cranelike]

Then of course you would die from that height. And yet, here you are...

(Alive.)

Was it a miracle?

[reflash]

A miracle isn't quite the right word.

I don't know what happened.

[cranelike]

... I'm quite good at listening.

[reflash]

I'm sure you are. [Yukio isn't good at talking.]

[cranelike]

Do you not want to talk? Or are you simply not good at talking?

[reflash]

I have no interest in discussing personal concerns with strangers.

[cranelike]

(That anime squinty eye thing....)

Then I look forward to getting to know you more.