[Worried, huh? That's a hell of a thing to be about someone like him, but that's just it - he's gone out of his way to make sure that the profile isn't all he's known for. And yet...
It doesn't do him any good to get frustrated about it, and it isn't as though Huaisang has done anything wrong. He came here of his own free will to check in on Yeager, and if he's truthful with himself for even a moment - it means something to him, something that he's not really sure he fully understands. It's been a long time since he felt anything quite like this; he's not really sure how to handle it anymore.]
I appreciate that you stopped by. Truly. I apologize if I'm coming off as... irritable.
[And that much is true, for however much it's worth.]
I'm not unfamiliar with situations like this. I've made quite a few enemies over the years. But that was... quite a bit different.
[To understate it. It wasn't so much the trial and the accusations that are agitating him so much as it was... Well, the demand of proof, of removing his shirt to reveal... what? That he didn't have any wounds, just like everyone else? For something they'd already argued could be healed quickly with an item from the shop?
Anyway, he shakes his head.]
I meant what I said; I didn't kill him, and I have no intention of killing here. My wish... it isn't worth playing this game.
[Maybe that's not the right way to phrase it, but that's the way he's chosen to do so.]
It's fine, you have every right to be upset...I'd be surprised if you weren't, really.
[ This would be where he'd smile a little, but after everything that's happened, it's very hard to manage that for any sort of reason. So thankfully, he won't.
To be honest, Huaisang found the checks to be important, but not so important to go after people who wouldn't comply with the 'strip checking'. The items had been mentioned, not to mention the person had attacked from afar; it was difficult to even know the killer was injured. It was really hard to say when there was so much blood, but...this person really knew what they were doing. That was going to stick with him for awhile. ]
I believe you. Just because everyone has been brought into this game for a wish, it's not something that they would kill for. People here didn't really have much of a choice in being here in the first place, just because Hamelin found out some have wishes they have, somehow got an 'agreement', and dragged them here due to that. But, even if others forget, it's something I always remember because I'm the same way.
It really is ridiculous to think that all of our wishes are equal in weight - or that killing here will actually serve to get us what we want. And don't forget that we have no proof that Hamelin will play by his own rules - there are so many reasons not to play along, but it hardly matters what you think about it when they decide things point towards you.
[It's infuriating to know that there wasn't anything he could have said or done to cast suspicion off of himself, because everything they were accusing him of had some sort of answer. A wound check revealed nothing? There's a potion for that. It was all hearsay, and the fact that the killer got away with it only irritates him more. Someone knew what they were doing in casting suspicion on other people, but he wasn't paying enough attention to the case to even begin solving it himself. Ugh, that sounds like a lot of work, too...]
Well, anyway, I do appreciate your presence here. It's not like me to get so irritated...
[But today has been something else entirely, hasn't it.]
...We really don't. We don't know Hamelin, he kidnapped us for 'fun' and whatever other reasons, and he's unsurprisingly not forthcoming about giving us anymore answers surrounding our situation. For all anyone knows, he could just decide that whoever is victorious stays here for an eternity, or receives their 'wish' in the worst way possible.
If they don't get that, sooner or later, they're going to regret it. Anyone else who tries to take up the offer and those who don't consider things carefully.
[ He could just feel somewhere out there finger from a monkey's paw just curled for the one who got "lucky". Or maybe that's what he's hoping. Either way, there's no way he's going to believe listening to that crazy man was worth it.
But unfortunately for them, someone did. Multiple someones by now, and one of them had even gotten away with it. He wondered when it would be obvious that falling for Hamelin's little 'game' would suddenly start to not become worth it so that nobody would try again. ]
...I really do think if things had gone worse for me last time, I might have been feeling just as irritated as you are. [ Or curled up in his bed, crying himself into a sleep ] But, I'm glad you do appreciate my presence right now...I know it's hard being alone with thoughts about this sort of thing. Though, I had also been prepared to be sent away, considering.
[There's a brief pause while he considers it. He was expecting Raven to stop by because there are questions that need to be answered and things that need to be addressed, but otherwise... Well, there isn't anyone else he was expecting to see today. Maybe if Alexei was feeling particularly rude he'd swing by, but the rest?]
I wasn't expecting it. Maybe if I had been my reaction would have been different.
[Or maybe not, since it is Huaisang. He can't say he knows a lot about the man, but Huaisang has always struck him as terribly sincere; if Huaisang was swinging by here, it likely wasn't to accuse him of getting away with murder. So maybe Huaisang would have been an exception anyway, just because of who he is as a person. Maybe someone else would call that friendship, but it certainly won't be Yeager!!]
I will be just fine in a few days or so - oh, and if you could keep my irritation just between the two of us? I would greatly prefer that no one else see just how annoyed I am with all of this.
[Because in the end Yeager really only knows how to present one face for himself, and emotions like anger and frustration have no place in that mask.]
[ Huaisang gave a small smile, however weak it was at that.
He wondered how the other's reaction would have been different, but decided that wasn't important right now. He's actually a little happy that something about everything concerning this week went a teensy bit okay. Even if everything shitty dwarfed it majorly. Sometimes, life was like that. ]
I can get that...it's really none of anyone else's business anyway. So, your secret is safe with me, I promise. If you want, we can even pinky swear on it, though you don't seem like the type of person who would.
[ Anyway, he's terrible at a lot of things, but keeping mum on a matter like this was easy to him. It was like when he was younger and had to do something similar because he and other disciples were being bad students and breaking the rules! ]
Oh? Do you really think I'm a man who doesn't trust pinky swears?
[In other words, he is absolutely not above this and he certainly isn't going to pretend for even a minute that he is. He holds out a gloved pinky instead!!]
Not that I really need the reassurance - I do believe you, after all! - but I'm unopposed~
I really thought you were! But, I'm glad to see you're not opposed.
[ Oh my god, Yeager, please. But his expression brightened up some more...it's more subdued than how it'll usually be due to everything, but Huaisang was the type of person who found joy in the smallest things sometimes. Things that may seem kind of childish. ]
Also, do you remember when I said that you're a fun person? Well, you get to hear that again.
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Date: 2021-06-13 05:29 am (UTC)It doesn't do him any good to get frustrated about it, and it isn't as though Huaisang has done anything wrong. He came here of his own free will to check in on Yeager, and if he's truthful with himself for even a moment - it means something to him, something that he's not really sure he fully understands. It's been a long time since he felt anything quite like this; he's not really sure how to handle it anymore.]
I appreciate that you stopped by. Truly. I apologize if I'm coming off as... irritable.
[And that much is true, for however much it's worth.]
I'm not unfamiliar with situations like this. I've made quite a few enemies over the years. But that was... quite a bit different.
[To understate it. It wasn't so much the trial and the accusations that are agitating him so much as it was... Well, the demand of proof, of removing his shirt to reveal... what? That he didn't have any wounds, just like everyone else? For something they'd already argued could be healed quickly with an item from the shop?
Anyway, he shakes his head.]
I meant what I said; I didn't kill him, and I have no intention of killing here. My wish... it isn't worth playing this game.
[Maybe that's not the right way to phrase it, but that's the way he's chosen to do so.]
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Date: 2021-06-13 11:28 am (UTC)[ This would be where he'd smile a little, but after everything that's happened, it's very hard to manage that for any sort of reason. So thankfully, he won't.
To be honest, Huaisang found the checks to be important, but not so important to go after people who wouldn't comply with the 'strip checking'. The items had been mentioned, not to mention the person had attacked from afar; it was difficult to even know the killer was injured. It was really hard to say when there was so much blood, but...this person really knew what they were doing. That was going to stick with him for awhile. ]
I believe you. Just because everyone has been brought into this game for a wish, it's not something that they would kill for. People here didn't really have much of a choice in being here in the first place, just because Hamelin found out some have wishes they have, somehow got an 'agreement', and dragged them here due to that. But, even if others forget, it's something I always remember because I'm the same way.
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Date: 2021-06-13 04:50 pm (UTC)[It's infuriating to know that there wasn't anything he could have said or done to cast suspicion off of himself, because everything they were accusing him of had some sort of answer. A wound check revealed nothing? There's a potion for that. It was all hearsay, and the fact that the killer got away with it only irritates him more. Someone knew what they were doing in casting suspicion on other people, but he wasn't paying enough attention to the case to even begin solving it himself. Ugh, that sounds like a lot of work, too...]
Well, anyway, I do appreciate your presence here. It's not like me to get so irritated...
[But today has been something else entirely, hasn't it.]
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Date: 2021-06-13 08:45 pm (UTC)If they don't get that, sooner or later, they're going to regret it. Anyone else who tries to take up the offer and those who don't consider things carefully.
[ He could just feel somewhere out there finger from a monkey's paw just curled for the one who got "lucky". Or maybe that's what he's hoping. Either way, there's no way he's going to believe listening to that crazy man was worth it.
But unfortunately for them, someone did. Multiple someones by now, and one of them had even gotten away with it. He wondered when it would be obvious that falling for Hamelin's little 'game' would suddenly start to not become worth it so that nobody would try again. ]
...I really do think if things had gone worse for me last time, I might have been feeling just as irritated as you are. [ Or curled up in his bed, crying himself into a sleep ] But, I'm glad you do appreciate my presence right now...I know it's hard being alone with thoughts about this sort of thing. Though, I had also been prepared to be sent away, considering.
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Date: 2021-06-13 08:58 pm (UTC)I wasn't expecting it. Maybe if I had been my reaction would have been different.
[Or maybe not, since it is Huaisang. He can't say he knows a lot about the man, but Huaisang has always struck him as terribly sincere; if Huaisang was swinging by here, it likely wasn't to accuse him of getting away with murder. So maybe Huaisang would have been an exception anyway, just because of who he is as a person. Maybe someone else would call that friendship, but it certainly won't be Yeager!!]
I will be just fine in a few days or so - oh, and if you could keep my irritation just between the two of us? I would greatly prefer that no one else see just how annoyed I am with all of this.
[Because in the end Yeager really only knows how to present one face for himself, and emotions like anger and frustration have no place in that mask.]
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Date: 2021-06-13 10:31 pm (UTC)[ Huaisang gave a small smile, however weak it was at that.
He wondered how the other's reaction would have been different, but decided that wasn't important right now. He's actually a little happy that something about everything concerning this week went a teensy bit okay. Even if everything shitty dwarfed it majorly. Sometimes, life was like that. ]
I can get that...it's really none of anyone else's business anyway. So, your secret is safe with me, I promise. If you want, we can even pinky swear on it, though you don't seem like the type of person who would.
[ Anyway, he's terrible at a lot of things, but keeping mum on a matter like this was easy to him. It was like when he was younger and had to do something similar because he and other disciples were being bad students and breaking the rules! ]
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Date: 2021-06-13 10:33 pm (UTC)[In other words, he is absolutely not above this and he certainly isn't going to pretend for even a minute that he is. He holds out a gloved pinky instead!!]
Not that I really need the reassurance - I do believe you, after all! - but I'm unopposed~
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Date: 2021-06-13 11:43 pm (UTC)[ Oh my god, Yeager, please. But his expression brightened up some more...it's more subdued than how it'll usually be due to everything, but Huaisang was the type of person who found joy in the smallest things sometimes. Things that may seem kind of childish. ]
Also, do you remember when I said that you're a fun person? Well, you get to hear that again.
[ Here we go one pinky swear! ♪ ]
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Date: 2021-06-13 11:50 pm (UTC)I wouldn't want to let you down, now would I? Regardless of what happens here, I will always continue to be fun~
["Fun" is a definition for how he is but probably not the right one. Anyway, pinky swear!! ☆]