❝ And also-❞ Then, she stops, perplexed.
❝ Wait… you said okay? So yer’ not gonna hurt m’ U-chan no more? ❞
She looks at the other ghoul firmly, drinking in his appearance, the pale silver hair, and dark eyes. The way his shoulders seem to hunch up and how he casts his eyes downwards. He’s actually…listening to her. Accepting her wishes.
This was something Maiko did not anticipate, Uta was often crass and short with her when she fussed over him, or tried to get him to listen to any of her suggestions when it came to wounding or otherwise getting hurt.
And yet this ghoul, who’d broken Uta’s legs, and was constantly stealing food was listening to her. She was known throughout the 4th ward, though more often than not it was through terms such as “Uta’s lady,” or “The girl with the accent who’s always with Uta.”
Both were acceptable to her, though they did not carry the same weight as Uta’s name among fellow ghouls, mostly, they kept her at bay, lest they incur Uta’s displeasure to find them, like a shark sniffing out blood in the water.
❝ Be…be careful with ‘em okay? He means a lot to me! I’m Maiko! ❞
“Yeah, whatever you say” he answers, if there’s anything he’s understood from the short girl’s yammering, it’s that she was not going to see any faults in Uta and therefore, there was no point in trying to convince her otherwise, so he’ll hear her, but he can’t promise he’ll listen. Besides, she wasn’t very scary and it seemed as though the only reason no one seemed to brawl with her was purely because of Uta so... as long as he didn’t prod Uta or her, he was fine. But if they were to prod him, niceties were up.
He shoves his hands into his pockets and gives a vague shrug. “That’s a pretty name. Nice--” and the word feels rather sour on his tongue, “--to meet you--” under the circumstances.
He’s definitely not here to be friends with anyone though, least of all Uta and his gang of crazies, Maiko included, so he doesn’t offer his own name back. She probably knows it anyway, with all the talking Uta does. The more he thinks about it and observes Maiko, the more he realizes they’re really not that bad of a match. Annoying, yammering, seeing no faults of their own, what a coincidence.
“So what’s the deal with you and him and his gang?” he asks. She seemed the type to talk and he’s the type to listen, so he figures it wouldn’t hurt to try it out-- he’s learned from Itori how information could be weaponized and while he’s momentarily agreed not to hurt Uta, he would appreciate the extra information to keep Uta from hurting him. “You work for him or somewhat?”
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