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week one ❧ monday
[Ultimately... Nino has to know what her profile says. Of course, there's the problem that she doesn't, you know, how to read, and she doesn't want to ask Jaffar; from what she's gathered from the rest of the profiles, they're pretty embarrassing or bad.
While she's sure he's read it...
She doesn't want to ask him to read it to her. That would be mortifying.
There are a few people she likes in this place, but someone was kind to her in particular, and already knows her secret; that makes it easier to immediately start snooping around the huts to try to find Akira's--and instead... managing to run into him as she's looking.]
... Oh!
Um, Akira...!
[I need ur halp]
While she's sure he's read it...
She doesn't want to ask him to read it to her. That would be mortifying.
There are a few people she likes in this place, but someone was kind to her in particular, and already knows her secret; that makes it easier to immediately start snooping around the huts to try to find Akira's--and instead... managing to run into him as she's looking.]
... Oh!
Um, Akira...!
[I need ur halp]
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[he'll hum and offer her a nod.] That's only fair, since I know what yours says. It's a little silly, though—I don't think much of it true, either.
[he'll flip to his own profile and just read it off the same way he read nino's.]
Akira Kurusu. Age 16. Height: Five feet, nine inches. Weight: Three question marks.
[he pauses, offering her a bit of a cheeky smile.] It looks like they let me keep one secret, huh?
[sure, that's what we'll go with and not that atlus didn't give anyone canon weights.]
Identifying features—Huge glasses, frizzy hair. [another pause, this is weird and embarrassing to say out loud.] A smirk that can make girls and guy drop their panties.
[seriously, nino. it's weird.]
Sacrificed for stealing hearts, falling off treadmills and being a smartass.
[somehow, that's less embarrassing than the panty dropping thing, whatever.]
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She doesn't totally get the connotations behind those colloquialisms, really, but she can at least get the general idea.]
I mean... you are really handsome.
[She can tell! Even though her heart is totally stolen, so it's more of a casual observation.]
...Thank you, Akira. For...reading mine to me, and sharing yours too.
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regardless, it's nice to see nino in better spirits after all of that. he kind of caused her to cry, but now she's laughing, so...
it's probably fine, right?
(please don't tell jaffar he made her cry, technically speaking. don't do it, nino.)]
I don't mind. It's not like everyone else didn't see mine already anyway. Now we're even.
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She knows better. She knows how Jaffar is, she'll definitely never tell Jaffar anything like that SHE KNOWS...]
Mm...I wish I knew how to read.
[She frowns a little to herself, drawing in the sand idly with a finger.]
It seems so... amazing! To be able to read everything for yourself, and... to not have to depend on anyone else. You could study anything you want!
[The shitty stepmother thing is, in fact, the reason behind the illiteracy, of course.]
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I never really thought about it that way.
[honestly, why would he? literacy is something he's taken for granted because it's just one of those things that exists. in a country where the literacy rate is 99%, he hardly ever considered people who can't read.]
I could try to show you some things. I don't think I'm much of a teacher or a tutor, but I could try.
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[There's...a slow, warm smile that spreads over her face at that, even as she begins to brighten further.
...!!!]
I promise I won't take too much of your time, and I'll do my best to learn... um, and I'll find a way to thank you, I promise!
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[it's something good, productive and helpful for him to do.]
I'll just have to think of the best way—I think there are some pens and paper around we could use.
[since sitting at the profile board and doing that sounds terrible, and he doesn't want to just draw letters and words in the sand. that's lame.]
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Okay! Just...let me know when you're not busy and I'll be ready to learn!
[HELL YEAH.]
I'm sure you'll be an amazing teacher!
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[he'll take a little bit of inspiration from nino's catchphrase here. he'd like to help her, if he can!]
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Let's do our best together! We'll be unstoppable!
[But...well, she at least got what she came here for.]
I guess I better not stay out long, or Jaffar will worry. But...thanks again, Akira! You're the best.
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[he doesn't think it would be all that great for jaffar to start worrying about her right now.
he won't hold her here, not when he was just trying to help her out, especially.]
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[And then, off she goes, back to her kawaii boyfriend.
Sadly, learning days will be derailed by suffering and murder.]