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@foolspromenade:
Akira looks down. Iwai is as perceptive as Akira could expect from someone who used to be in the Yakuza. He’s not sure how to reply, but he knows he can’t lie, there’s no doubt in his mind that Iwai would catch on.
“… Not great,” he starts, unsure of where to go with that. It wasn’t often he was put on the spot about his emotions like this, mostly due to the fact he repressed them so heavily that nobody seemed to worry. “Life is just… hard right now.”
“... Look, kid. I’m not gonna pretend like I can help or even understand half the shit you’re goin’ through. God knows I barely made it through grade school before droppin’ outta high school and getting into all sorts of bad decisions. So- That means that I am the LAST person who’d ever try and get off on lecturing you.”
He scratches the side of his cheek and leans back in his chair behind the counter, closing and tossing the magazine he’d been hiding behind aside.
“But, that don’t mean I wouldn’t be willing to LISTEN, if ya need to get some serious shit off’a yer chest. So... Try me.”













