[ When he's gripped by emotion, sentimentality, it's in the moment Hiruma blinks, remembers to inhale, that it's over.
He was right — sometimes he really hated that about himself. Makise Kurisu didn't remember him, and opening the door to one insecurity let in several more. She was here, real; she bumped him, she acknowledged and spoke to him. But without the memory, Hiruma was just another face. A foreign one, something alien. So he looks away, down at his hand. ]
No. [ His voice is detached, expression schooled into something neutral. ] No, that'd be impossible, even with your stubbornness.
[ It comes off a bit snippy, the curt tone a result of his turmoil — what could he even say? If she didn't remember, why should he bother even making a case for himself? "You and I were trapped in American suburbia in an alternate dimension"? Yeah, fucking right. ]
We met. Once. But even that seems like a long time ago, now.
[ the testy reply makes her wrinkle her nose; clearly, she finds that sort of attitude a little distasteful, and she would have been more than willing to end this conversation right there and continue on her merry way. But, again, he goes and says something unusual.
Her dreadful curiosity always gets the better of her. ]
Once? Where? Were you at a convention? Forgive my bluntness, but you don't look like the scholarly type.
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He was right — sometimes he really hated that about himself. Makise Kurisu didn't remember him, and opening the door to one insecurity let in several more. She was here, real; she bumped him, she acknowledged and spoke to him. But without the memory, Hiruma was just another face. A foreign one, something alien. So he looks away, down at his hand. ]
No. [ His voice is detached, expression schooled into something neutral. ] No, that'd be impossible, even with your stubbornness.
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... Have we met, sir?
[ He looked like a punk. She'd remember meeting someone like this; her memory is good. But there was nothing to recognize in his features. ]
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[ It comes off a bit snippy, the curt tone a result of his turmoil — what could he even say? If she didn't remember, why should he bother even making a case for himself? "You and I were trapped in American suburbia in an alternate dimension"? Yeah, fucking right. ]
We met. Once. But even that seems like a long time ago, now.
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Her dreadful curiosity always gets the better of her. ]
Once? Where? Were you at a convention? Forgive my bluntness, but you don't look like the scholarly type.