[ Not true at all, actually. The work he and Eren are doing on his memories has functionally taken over the role counseling used to play in their relationship. Different flavors of the same thing.
More tea for him, too! ]
I know you're going to miss your weekly session, Akechi-kun, but you have to let it go.
[ That is categorically untrue, but Maruki isn't about to get into a serious conversation when they're all just joshing around.
Also? Now that the struggle is abandoned, he's sticking his leggies under the kotatsu to get warm too. Hi! He's here too now! ]
Not a single one of my former patients has been too broken up over it, so clearly I wasn't really onto anything. [ SEE? LIGHTHEARTED. LIL. JOKES. HAHA. Time for more tea. ] And now I'm freed up for more time for things like this! We all win, don't we?
[He's going to fucking LOSE IT. Wow, tea is sure in his hands.]
Ah, so we do.
[Is all he says with a smile plastered on his face. Unbothered. Moisturized. In his lane.]
As long as both former war leaders are comfortable with the situation, I won't bring it up again. [He will.] It's fortunate we're back in a timeline where such peace is possible. My, it would difficult for us to sit around the kotatsu and chat back in that false reality. It makes me grateful for this opportunity.
Why would I be? Ordering around some inexperienced people with my own minimal background isn't an effective use of time. Most people operated how they should have. I wonder what value a recently awakened ex-counselor had to them - it's fascinating.
[Eren's quiet - doing what? Akechi doesn't care. Sort through those swiss cheese thoughts on your own time.
It's so annoying. Not even the duck gets a reaction anymore.]
But I suppose you were a figurehead anyway, almost like a politician. No harm was done.
A large one. You certainly wouldn't miss it, unless you were willfully obtuse. I've learned it tends to roll with swine for most of its life, though it will occasionally wander and bite anyone.
[Some shit about authorities and marking him and wow she sure did do the most fucking sexual act possible on his finger and he was literally just guy standing there he was having such a nice day everyone was having such a nice day the garden was so quiet and he remembers thinking something was about to pop off and then she just appears to fucking stick his goddamn finger into her mouth, stop time and ohhhh of course she can stop time ooohhhh godlike ai stops time ohhhh little pathetic palace ruler stops time oohhhhhhh]
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[ Not true at all, actually. The work he and Eren are doing on his memories has functionally taken over the role counseling used to play in their relationship. Different flavors of the same thing.
More tea for him, too! ]
I know you're going to miss your weekly session, Akechi-kun, but you have to let it go.
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Don't imply I was coming to you for anything more than an update on an emergency. It was the easiest way to confer about our situation.
[The leg struggle? Temporarily abandoned. That's fine. He'll wait for Eren to let up and slam that shit up against the heater so quick.]
Congratulations on being officially discharged from counseling, I suppose. Your mental health seems better than ever, Eren.
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[Akechi's dig is actually funny. Of course, apropos of that, he doesn't laugh anymore - offers a dry:]
He realized it was a lost cause.
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Also? Now that the struggle is abandoned, he's sticking his leggies under the kotatsu to get warm too. Hi! He's here too now! ]
Not a single one of my former patients has been too broken up over it, so clearly I wasn't really onto anything. [ SEE? LIGHTHEARTED. LIL. JOKES. HAHA. Time for more tea. ] And now I'm freed up for more time for things like this! We all win, don't we?
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Ah, so we do.
[Is all he says with a smile plastered on his face. Unbothered. Moisturized. In his lane.]
As long as both former war leaders are comfortable with the situation, I won't bring it up again. [He will.] It's fortunate we're back in a timeline where such peace is possible. My, it would difficult for us to sit around the kotatsu and chat back in that false reality. It makes me grateful for this opportunity.
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Your former patients. I want to see that list. No reason.
[And a glance at Akechi.]
You're sitting at the kotatsu too.
[Sip.]
So to speak.
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Oh, Maruki-san won't provide that. He's an advocate of privacy, though if I recall-
Webby may be able to get that for you.
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For Akechi, though– ]
Don't tell me you're still annoyed at not being made a leader yourself.
[ Sike. He's not acknowledging The Duck. Fuck you. ♥ ]
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[Eren's quiet - doing what? Akechi doesn't care. Sort through those swiss cheese thoughts on your own time.
It's so annoying. Not even the duck gets a reaction anymore.]
But I suppose you were a figurehead anyway, almost like a politician. No harm was done.
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Akechi gets one (1) sour look from Maruki for that comment before he turns his attention to eren, nudges the bowl of senbei toward him. ]
That's code for "yes, I'm horribly annoyed, actually." But I assume you're as fluent in Akechi as I am by this point.
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I think he'd rather that not be true. [Senbei time.]
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I'm an open and honest person. There's nothing you need to be 'fluent' in. Please refrain from making bizarre comments like that.
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[ Sweet, innocent lil senbei munch. ]
Do you want to explain your new tattoo, then?
[ OH, YOU THOUGHT HE DIDN'T NOTICE? There's a II inked on Akechi's finger, and Maruki's seen that shit in the early mornings when he's gloveless. ]
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Oh yeah. I forgot to ask about that.
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He is so goddamn fucking `STATIC` over it.]
A disgusting pest bit me. It's a temporary mark from that, and will go away on its own. It's not a tattoo.
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we can wrap soon <333
A large one. You certainly wouldn't miss it, unless you were willfully obtuse. I've learned it tends to roll with swine for most of its life, though it will occasionally wander and bite anyone.
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Maruki pauses. Stares at Akechi, silent, calculating.
Then turns to Eren. His voice is flat with exhaustion. ]
BB bit him, then. Hopefully in her rabbit form.
[ Hopefully, but probably not!!!
Cool. He hates it. He's getting up to make more tea. Bye, freaks. ]
we can still wrap soon but have this
[Unless. You know.
[Which he hates.]
1/3
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he does not feel this way about a single one of his partners jsyk