Yes. A bright fool at that. You'll learn that wizards can be rather resilient -- we didn't survive hundreds of years of oppression by sitting around and doing nothing, hm?
[ shylock just neatly returns that sneer with a bright smile in his voice and all that. ]
And well, you're not wrong that among the four of us, I seem to have the most authority. While I won't hesitate in helping out a friend in need, Cain will have to overcome his trials with his own two hands. It's what his mentor would have wanted for him.
Yes... We humans would know nothing of resilience.
[Without his expression to match, Matoba's tone becomes murky. The silkiness in both their voices was subject to change throughout their conversations, at any moment teetering between threatening and teasing, but Matoba lacked Shylock's grace. It was one side of a blade or the other, with him.]
[Knowing that Shylock was still the most senior was ... useful, he supposes. But that meant little when Shylock was also the most laid-back of those he had met. That, he supposes, was still a good thing; he wasn't worried about the others, just yet.]
...It might have been fun to make use of his naivety and learn some interesting things about you, Shylock-san, but I accomplished what it is I set out to do in that afternoon.
What he wishes to think of me, after answering his questions, isn't my concern.
Surely you did not think calling to scold me would be fruitful. What is it you want out of my time?
[ being laidback and chill have its perks! matoba should really try it sometime. ]
I have no intention in convincing you to change your ways, if you're not willing. There are so many humans like you in the West that it means little to me on what you think of my kind.
I'm only here to provide some perspective on a friend, seeing as he's from a wholly different country than I, and not to mention a recent Lost Soul who found himself in a world that's very much different from his own. Not every wizard has my temperament, after all. But... well, perhaps you could say that I'm here in his defense as well. It's what friends do.
That will be all. Though if you do try instigating another ruckus in my bar, I will have no choice but to intervene. And trust me when I say that you won't like it when a Western wizard intervenes. [ fufu. ] Have a good night, Mr. Matoba.
Then there is no more to say. [It would only be an additional waste of his breath; he'll take the information at face value, for what use it could be in the future- but that was the only value.]
[The threat- that was what he really expected this to be about- is far more interesting, anyway.]
[In his silky and interested voice, he says,] I don't know if that is true. [He might like it a lot. Would Shylock try to kill him, or simply make him suffer? No. Knowing this slippery one, perhaps he would try to do something to shame him. No matter what, it would be something interesting, indeed, to see this monster get serious with his magic.] But I respect the presence of a neutral meeting ground; I have no intentions of instigating anything pointless in your bar.
Nor have I, to this point. [He will remind him of this, also.] Goodnight, Shylock-san.
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[ shylock just neatly returns that sneer with a bright smile in his voice and all that. ]
And well, you're not wrong that among the four of us, I seem to have the most authority. While I won't hesitate in helping out a friend in need, Cain will have to overcome his trials with his own two hands. It's what his mentor would have wanted for him.
[ he's doing this for you, lord oz... ]
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[Without his expression to match, Matoba's tone becomes murky. The silkiness in both their voices was subject to change throughout their conversations, at any moment teetering between threatening and teasing, but Matoba lacked Shylock's grace. It was one side of a blade or the other, with him.]
[Knowing that Shylock was still the most senior was ... useful, he supposes. But that meant little when Shylock was also the most laid-back of those he had met. That, he supposes, was still a good thing; he wasn't worried about the others, just yet.]
...It might have been fun to make use of his naivety and learn some interesting things about you, Shylock-san, but I accomplished what it is I set out to do in that afternoon.
What he wishes to think of me, after answering his questions, isn't my concern.
Surely you did not think calling to scold me would be fruitful. What is it you want out of my time?
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I have no intention in convincing you to change your ways, if you're not willing. There are so many humans like you in the West that it means little to me on what you think of my kind.
I'm only here to provide some perspective on a friend, seeing as he's from a wholly different country than I, and not to mention a recent Lost Soul who found himself in a world that's very much different from his own. Not every wizard has my temperament, after all. But... well, perhaps you could say that I'm here in his defense as well. It's what friends do.
That will be all. Though if you do try instigating another ruckus in my bar, I will have no choice but to intervene. And trust me when I say that you won't like it when a Western wizard intervenes. [ fufu. ] Have a good night, Mr. Matoba.
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Then there is no more to say. [It would only be an additional waste of his breath; he'll take the information at face value, for what use it could be in the future- but that was the only value.]
[The threat- that was what he really expected this to be about- is far more interesting, anyway.]
[In his silky and interested voice, he says,] I don't know if that is true. [He might like it a lot. Would Shylock try to kill him, or simply make him suffer? No. Knowing this slippery one, perhaps he would try to do something to shame him. No matter what, it would be something interesting, indeed, to see this monster get serious with his magic.] But I respect the presence of a neutral meeting ground; I have no intentions of instigating anything pointless in your bar.
Nor have I, to this point. [He will remind him of this, also.] Goodnight, Shylock-san.