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[not that Hinata has room to talk, but you worry him sometimes, Kino. how could she miss such a blatant thing--?! (oh well, that was why she had him!)]

FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org You said he hasn't spoken to you yet!!! Isn't that creepy already????

[or maybe you should work on your own constitution, Hinata.]

[ah, but the sigh his next text must be typed in is practically visible.]FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org But that's the best you can do...

[another pause.]FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org Either that or ask him to teach you how to sword-fight, that'd be pretty ballin Actually yeah, you should do that

FROM: kino@cdc.org
He hadn't spoken to me when you first mentioned him. He's texting me now.

FROM: kino@cdc.org
He seems nice enough.

[Right now he was just coming to terms with the fact that Hermes was sentient. It seems to be a little less easy to understand when you can't hear him talk.

But yeah, Kino has no idea what "ballin'" might mean (does this have to do with volleyball??), but they can use context to figure out what Hinata means.]

FROM: kino@cdc.org
Maybe I should. I can fight with a knife, but I never learned how to use a sword.

I did fight someone who was very good at fighting with the sword, once. He was a dangerous adversary.

[And when Kino says "very good at fighting with the sword," they mean he had literally either deflected or cut in half all of Kino's bullets. The traveler had bested him in the end, though.]

FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org Be careful!!!
[this would be a time for poor Nic with Hinata's level of wariness directed at him, but that line about making him pay later ....... well .... anyway.]

[much, much more interestingly: this new news. rather, this new story. ("adversary" was, remarkably, one of the four-syllable plus words Hinata recognized on sight). the level of interest he felt might be illustrated very shortly.]

FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org Yeah?? What happened????

FROM: kino@cdc.org
I'll be fine.

[Shh, it's okay, Hinata, Nic doesn't know about this conversation. You'll be alright.

If Hinata's interest or investment in something could be judged by how many punctuation marks he used, Kino assumes that he's interested in this story. Unfortunately, Kino does not believe themself to be the most gifted at telling stories (they prefer to listen), and it's even more difficult when texting. They'll try, though.]

FROM: kino@cdc.org
I defeated him. It was not easy, though. He could move faster than the eye could see at one time.

FROM: kino@cdc.org
I managed to catch the bottom of the grip with my revolver and knock his sword out of his hands.

FROM: kino@cdc.org
Had I not done that, though, he most likely would have killed me.

[Not that Shizu had wanted to. Both of them had begged the other to step down from that last fight in the coliseum, but Kino had perceived his situation and knew that the path he was on would lead him to nothing but ruin. So Kino had stepped in and taken the mantle of that ruin from him, placing it upon themself.

All in all, he had been a respectable person, and Kino hopes that his travels bring him and his dog, Riku, happiness.]

[there may indeed have been a direct correlation between punctuation marks and enthusiasm. despite any of Kino's misgivings about her storytelling ability, her story must have more than made up for it, because his excitement seemed only to grow.]

[(with unknown respect to Shizu and his dog,)]

FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org Bottom of the grip with your REVOLVER??!! That's intense!!! Really really intense!! And you say you don't even know swordsmanship...!! FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org He really would've killed you?? Geez

[when would he start taking these things with more gravity...? not any time soon, probably.]FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org So you pinned him down and took his sword and what happened after that?????

Edited 2014-10-23 20:42 (UTC)

[So many punctuation marks.]

FROM: kino@cdc.org
It was. Or, rather, the crowd really thought it was.

[Did Kino not mention they were fighting in a coliseum? Whoops.]

FROM: kino@cdc.org
I don't. I was just faster, and a bit luckier.

FROM: kino@cdc.org
He would have. He didn't want to, but he believed it was his only option.

FROM: kino@cdc.org
Nothing, really. I knocked his sword away, and he knew if he tried to go retrieve it, I could shoot him as he did so.

FROM: kino@cdc.org
He was fast, however. Faster than anyone I've ever fought. He could've dodged a bullet if I shot at him point-blank.

FROM: kino@cdc.org
I ended up shooting, but it wasn't at him, though.

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please watch thru the coliseum episodes before i have to tag this again i dont want to spoil