[ Thinks back to Ardeo's volcano to when Phoenix had asked him to put pants on one of his Personas. A Persona which, incidentally, is perpetually on fire.
> "Seriously. What a moron!" > "Well..." > "He could have been a little more tactful about it." ]
He could have been a little more tactful about it. [ Diplomatically. ]
Well... he is her boss, and they seem close. It's not that strange. And it doesn't seem like she expected him to do something like this...
[ That gives him pause. It strikes him, not for the first time, that Merlin is an intensely closed off person. He wonders about that. They talked a bit about Merlin's life back home, but not in any real depth. Sometimes, Yu gets the same feeling from Merlin that he gets from Rapunzel - the sense of some deeper happenings that they have a great unwillingness to reveal. Yu won't pry. In the end, all he wants is the best for his friend, and hopes that he doesn't feel too alone. ]
Considering how ridiculous he acts, hopefully most people won't take him too seriously. I hope your talk with him goes well.
If I had to guess, that's probably how she feels about it. I don't want most people knowing about Minato-san and I, necessarily, but I still let my close friends know.
[ He tried not to be once. Funnily enough. When him and Athena had a mini argument about things before. He tried to explain where he was coming from, but she got so overwhelmed by everything she started blacking out again and he ended up having to knock her out again.
So it feels like he can't... shouldn't talk about it anyway.
This whole thing is making him feel lonelier than he did before honestly. He misses Gwen. He misses Lancelot. He misses Gaius. It's incredibly lonely going through a lot of the stuff he's been through and hasn't talked to anyone about it. At least not properly until he came here. Not in as much detail. ]
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[ Don't lie to your friends....... ]
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[ He saw Maya's comment. ]
How long are you going to give him the runaround?
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[ What does that mean...? It means Phoenix would upset at least 2 girls by shooting him, he doesn't know who else but ... yeah. ]
Maybe if he stops making this look so weird. It depends.
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He went about it pretty strangely, didn't he? I'm not sure why he didn't just ask Athena.
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I didn't even know she'd told him.
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Has she talked to you about it? He might have found out from someone else. She didn't mention it to me, either.
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[ ah..... ]
Not really, but I haven't told anyone but Shigeru. She asked me to keep it a secret.
[ He might have mentioned liking her to Charlie and Fay while drunk before... he probably not that they were together ]
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> "Seriously. What a moron!"
> "Well..."
> "He could have been a little more tactful about it." ]
He could have been a little more tactful about it. [ Diplomatically. ]
Well... he is her boss, and they seem close. It's not that strange. And it doesn't seem like she expected him to do something like this...
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It's ironic that I probably could make the ground swallow me up if I wanted it to.
Did I miss something in the "I don't want people to know" thing?
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I don't think so. There's a difference between "people in general" and "people I'm very close with," isn't there?
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I wouldn't really know.
[ Yu... he doesn't even tell Gaius everything. ]
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Considering how ridiculous he acts, hopefully most people won't take him too seriously. I hope your talk with him goes well.
If I had to guess, that's probably how she feels about it. I don't want most people knowing about Minato-san and I, necessarily, but I still let my close friends know.
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So it feels like he can't... shouldn't talk about it anyway.
This whole thing is making him feel lonelier than he did before honestly. He misses Gwen. He misses Lancelot. He misses Gaius. It's incredibly lonely going through a lot of the stuff he's been through and hasn't talked to anyone about it. At least not properly until he came here. Not in as much detail. ]
We'll see about that.
Sorry it ended up coming up the way it did.