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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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[mom, he loves you but you're not getting him to admit he likes sweets]

... Tea is fine, I suppose, if nothing else.

[mombastic]

[ She knows it in her heart. ]

I can work with that!

[discard]

But... I am not particularly picky even so.

[Lies.

He's a child.]

[mombastic]

Oh? All the same, you've given me a few options.

[ Which she'll abide by. ]

[discard]

...Well, do what you want. For now, I still have no issues with being the one to cook.

[...]

S-simply because I am trying to perfect my abilities, naturally...!

[mombastic]

Naturally. I have to say, you've really become an amazing cook already.

[ HE'S SHOWED HER UP SO GOOD... ]

[discard]

... Naturally.

[He's just going to go ahead and try to pretend he didn't get flustered there. HE MEANT TO DO THAT.]

I could not accept anything less in something I have decided to do.

[mombastic]

Are you enjoying it, though?

[ It's not something he feels he has to do? ]

[discard]

[He honestly just... momentarily looks puzzled at that.]

It is something convenient and easy enough, and it saves time in searching for edible food in this city.

[Enjoying?? Things???]

[mombastic]

... That's not quite what I meant.

[ LEON... ]

[discard]

[He doesn't mean to be obtuse, he just...really doesn't get it.]

... Speak more plainly, then. What do you mean?

[mombastic]

Well... if cooking is more relaxing for you, I suppose. You know, when you do things also because you like how it makes you feel?

[discard]

[N...o....]

Is that so... [...]

Yes, well, I suppose it isn't a chore, if anything.

[mombastic]

Then it really might be something you enjoy! I'm glad you found something new.

[ Maybe he'll remember how to be sixteen eventually. ]

[discard]

[............. mom pls.]

I fail to see why it matters in the least to you what I do in my free time. Or whether or not it is... enjoyable.

[mombastic]

Because I care.

[ Is that really so hard to understand? ]

[discard]

[...y....es.....]

... Even so, I do not need you concerning yourself with every aspect of my life. That sounds tiresome. [For Otome, that is...]

[mombastic]

Does it? It's really not that hard.

[ Sorry, Leon. She's going to keep wanting to learn more. ]

[discard]

[And he just sighs a little, wearily.]

... I think we have already established that what is familiar to you is... strange...to me. In many ways.

But fine. Do what you want.

[mombastic]

It's new to you. It just means you'll have time to get used to it.

[ And yes she will!! ]

[discard]

[..........]

Time... is not something that I--

[...thought he had much of, now.]

--never mind.

[mombastic]

While you're here, you have time. And we'll figure something out beyond that.

[ Sorry, Leon, their group has a bit of trying to not let people stay dead. ]

[discard]

[Figure something out beyond that... but he doesn't really...deserve...]

... I suppose I do have time while I am here.

[He won't touch the rest.]

I will make of that what I can, if nothing else.

[mombastic]

... It'll be all right. I'll do what I can to help.

[discard]

[... Perhaps he should flail it away. Perhaps he should deny her, and say that he can handle it himself.

But the thought Stahn put into his head is still there--that maybe, one day, if it could possibly work... he could go with Otome.

And he can't in good faith deny her then.]

... Do what you want. It is not as though... I have any intentions of stopping you.