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"I am not interested in speaking with you. Stop pestering me."

[ Wow, what a friendly person you're trying to contact on this fine day!! ]

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[AND, IMMEDIATELY:]

He is not my friend!

[And since Otome doesn't seem to be getting the picture:]

I hate people like him, who are happy-go-lucky idiots without a care in the world, the most!

[mombastic]

Ah. [ Calmly. ]

If asking you to help look after someone you hate was going to trouble you so much, I'm very sorry.

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That is not what I said.

[It's... not like it's trouble or anything.... leave him alone, god!!!]

It isn't any of your business anyway.

[mombastic]

Mm. Maybe not, but I still care about the both of you.

[discard]

[alksndklnalsd]

I didn't ask for something like that from you. Leave me alone.

[Don't...care about him!!! That's weird. He doesn't want it.]

[mombastic]

Unfortunately, this isn't something you can order. My feelings are perfectly my own.

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[UGHHH...]

Why.

[...]

You have no reason to care.

[you sound kind of pouty, leon.]

[mombastic]

Bzzzzzt.

[ Yes, she did just make a buzzer noise. ]

The correct answer is--!

I have no reason not to care.

[discard]

Excuse me?

[He sounds so offended right now.]

What is wrong with you? [Don't... don't "bzzzt" at him!]

[mombastic]

That was wrong, Leon. Completely.

[ So nope. ]

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Don't speak to me as though I'm a child. I understood you the first time.

[He's just... offended....]

[mombastic]

Then you should also know that I don't intend to stop caring anytime soon.

[ Go ahead and try to stop her!! ]

[discard]

[why you gotta be like that, mom]

... Don't be ridiculous. [He doesn't know how to even begin to react to this.

Besides, you know, being totally embarrassed.]

[mombastic]

Is it so ridiculous to like you?

[ She sounds genuinely puzzled. ]

[discard]

Of course it is.

[His answer comes immediately and firmly.]

You don't even know me at all. You have no reason to care about me, and caring about someone you know nothing about is simply stupidity.

[mombastic]

And yet, doctors are put in charge of caring for whoever needs help, regardless of their past, beliefs, and actions.

I don't need a reason to care about you, but I do have one. To me, wanting to support someone who's helped me isn't stupidity. So I'm afraid you'll just have to endure it.

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[... He really doesn't understand. He understands that she takes her career very seriously, at least, but even so--he feels that you can be a doctor, and take care of people, without actually caring about them. He doesn't really think it's necessary to care that much.

And help....]

Don't make me laugh. I hardly helped you. [He gave input on chocolate, but the more time went on from there, the more he realized that he was the one who was helped that day more than anything... especially because Otome never really asked for anything in return for the chocolates.

Still.... he doesn't have any other arguments against her. He's used them all, and from there it's just fact that--well, maybe this is just how Otome is. He can't argue against that, because some people really are just... like that. Stahn, Philia, Mary... even the likes of Rutee and Woodrow, they always cared about other people, and at no personal gain.

He doesn't understand it, but he has to admit it exists.]

[mombastic]

I don't think of help in measurements.

[ And maybe she won't mention that Leon's help had aided her in figuring out what he had liked. And she hadn't been lying about wanting a teenage boy's opinion. All the same, it worked out well for both of them, and even if it wasn't anything quite so monumental as saving her life or aiding her in a fight, it was reason enough for Otome to count it as help at all.

It really just is how she is, though. ]

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You think too much of help if that is good enough for you.

[Just saying!!!

He thinks she thinks too highly of him in general, but that he's not going to say.]

[mombastic]

I'm easily grateful.

[ SMILES.

Even if he can't see it. ]

[discard]

Apparently you are.

[It's just a sullen murmur... because he doesn't know how to deal with her contentedness with something like that.

TIME TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT.]

Then, from your meddling, I assume that you made it out of there without any harm as well.

[... right?]

[mombastic]

I had a minor bruise from an encounter, but aside from that, completely fine!

[ She's a doctor! ]

[discard]

An encounter?

[that's really vague... still, bruises aren't bad, so he supposes that is about as well as you can expect things to go.]

... Good. It would be troublesome if you weren't.

[For what reason exactly, Leon because he'd be sad]

[mombastic]

Kogami-san already apologized, so you don't need to worry.

... Not that I thought you were worried, of course. Just possibly troubled.

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[Casually...mentally commits the name "Kogami" to memory to look up later...]

I wasn't worried or troubled. I just wanted a better grasp of the situation, which you delivered.

[Sure, Leon.]

That's all.