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[liketeenspirit]

So, uh, do you guys ever use this app for anything serious, or is it all just gossip and photo filters...?

[Funny you should say that, Ichigo...

Someone should really tell him.]

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[verinumeri]

[ Had they both been using their phones for the video function, Mr. Kurosaki would have seen Hermann stare through that explanation.

Oddly targeted, that. He hadn't heard of anyone else with a letter. But more than that, perhaps one of his initial impressions about Mr. Kurosaki was correct, that he'd go and punch a stranger first thing.

He's a punk. ]

No, I don't know. I cannot imagine anything someone could put in a letter that I'd punch them over.

[liketeenspirit]

[Got it in one, professor. He's talking about punching people like it's completely normal and no big deal.]

What, seriously? You can't think of anything at all? ...well, I guess it makes sense. It's hard to imagine you getting into a fight.

But there was stuff about my sisters in there. I'm not gonna let anybody get away with saying shit like that. Doesn't matter who they are.

[If he meets Rage, he'll probably punch her, too.]

[verinumeri]

[ ...Actually, he can think of a few things.

Only, as it would be in a letter, he wouldn't prioritize hunting them down to slug. Perhaps if something said to his face and the heat of the moment prompted it.

He's not, however, about to admit that he might, in fact, be a person who would get in a fight. Perhaps it will be easier for Mr. Kurosaki to imagine once he sees Newton and him together. Unfortunately.

In the meantime, Hermann simply avoids answering the question, allowing that impression to last for as long as it can.

As for sisters -- he thinks of Karla.

It's been a terribly long time since last he did. His older sister. They had never been a close family, but she'd been better at it. Remained in sporadic communication, even after his father had explicitly cut him out.

More to the point, if it's about family, it softens his impression of Mr. Kurosaki. ]

Fair enough, I suppose. Only, did you think to ask why that man would have known anything about your sisters, or you?

[liketeenspirit]

Well, yeah, sure I asked. If he'd been following me and my family, I wanted to know why and what he was after. He said he didn't know and that the gods had done it, but I didn't believe him. I mean, I hadn't heard anything about any gods before that, and it sounded like a pretty lame excuse.

[In other words, your explanation, Hermann, was loads better than Mello's half-assed, sarcastic one.

His expression turns a touch shamefaced, though, as he goes on.]

...but I guess I wasn't exactly thinking straight, either.