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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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I'm fine. Don't make me repeat myself again!

[Yeah, he's totally frazzled. Between the robot and Stahn and everything, he just...needs a moment.

Give him a bit.]

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O... okay. I believe you...

[kind of. he's fine physically, but he's obviously overwhelmed, so... stahn will do exactly what leon needs right now.

he'll take another step away from leon to create some extra distance, idly looking around at the contents of the shelves in the store.

—how convenient that his eyes meet with the cover of that mysterious story of fate. boy, that lead character sure does have a lot of hair. it's kind of familiar in a way...

(naturally, this means he's going to pick the case up to get a closer look at it.)]

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[Thanks, Stahn, truly you're a pal.

Leon has no idea why Stahn is inspecting that cover so thoughtfully, though--after a moment, he clears his throat.]

Are we finished here?

[Let's go let's goooo]

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Hey, Leon...

[they're not finished here at all. nope.

he's going to hold the cover out to leon. it's suspiciously familiar, even if some of the designs are a little more cerealia-esque and the palettes are swapped around.]

Doesn't that guy on the left kind of look like you?

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Excuse me? Don't be ridiculous, we look nothing alike.

[Bullshit, Leon, it's basically you but palette swapped.]

Stop fooling around.

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Eh? But you look alike...! Actually...

[everyone kind of looks familiar...]

I kind of get that feeling from everyone here. It's kind of weird, isn't it?

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I think you're being utterly ridiculous. There is nothing similar about any of us and those.

[Maybe actually look at it, Leon...

Which he does, reluctantly.

A beat.

.....]

Aside, perhaps, from the ridiculous hair you share with the person in the center.

[majinken]

—See!? And this one kind of looks like Rutee, and that like Philia...

[and the other guy that looks like woodrow, naturally. it's strange and uncanny, though stahn has to wonder...]

Do you really think I'd look like that with darker hair? Eheheh... it's kind of cool-looking...

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[Oh my god.

Leon just reaches out to tug on Stahn's hair. FOCUS.]

Now you are just full of nonsense. Your hair does not need to change, and it looks ridiculous on here. [...] D-do not get any strange ideas though! You look ridiculous as you are as well!

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Owowowowwww!

[leon, don't do that!]

I didn't say I was going to change it! But... it looks pretty cool... it's kind of heroic, like that tall, dark and handsome thing!

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You need to get your head out of storybooks.

[Sheesh!]

That sort of classification would not suit you even if you did have dark hair.

[Ice cold.]

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...You don't have to be so mean about it.

[he could be cool and heroic, okay...]

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I'm simply making the situation clear.

[Because he's the worst.]

You get the most ridiculous fantasies and delusions in your head and I do not understand why you are so fascinated by this.

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I was just thinking about it... it's okay to think about these kinds of things, you know... Just for fun...

[leon, why don't you ever know what fun is?]

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[what is fun]

... As a waste of time and energy, you mean.

Let's go.

[majinken]

It's not either of those things at all, you know...

[but stahn will still concede and put the game down.

for now.

there's a 100% chance he's coming back for that later though.]

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[Poor Stahn... for now, Leon's bustling out of the store to continue what is very much not a date.

Even if they've basically forgotten their original purpose by now.

Amazing.]

[majinken]

[the purpose isn't important, leon! it's about the journey!

or something, but stahn is just trying to keep up, because leon seems a hell of a lot more intense to him now than he did before they got dragged in there to begin with. oops.]

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[it's about success, Stahn. SUCCESS.

But he's definitely more intense, striding forward with great purpose.

Even though he

Doesn't really know where they're going.]

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Uh... Leon...?

[yeah, stahn has realized that they're just going, and not very calmly, either.]

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What now?

[Friendly!!

And he's not stopping.]

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....Where are we going?

[the important questions!]

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We're going--

[Where...are they going.

UH...]

T-that is, we are clearly headed back home! [Just... in a roundabout way.]

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Isn't that... the other way, though?

[hpw roundabout are we talking here, leon?]

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Shut up.

[LEAVE HIM ALONE.

HE'S.

GOING TO TURN THAT WAY NOW.]