[ that question makes him pause, but it's a different one than the water bucket--in fact, this is the silence that fills when the one-eyed dragon is thinking. it's not hesitation, because he knows what to say--it's not the wording, either, because he knows how to say it.
maybe it's the fact takane's asking it, or maybe it's the fact that she just admitted that she's angry so he's sheepish in the way he is around kojuro. as much as he didn't act like it sometimes, it wasn't as if he set out to make them angry. the complete opposite, actually, but sometimes he just had to do the things he did. there was just... no other way to do it, in his eyes. ]
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maybe it's the fact takane's asking it, or maybe it's the fact that she just admitted that she's angry so he's sheepish in the way he is around kojuro. as much as he didn't act like it sometimes, it wasn't as if he set out to make them angry. the complete opposite, actually, but sometimes he just had to do the things he did. there was just... no other way to do it, in his eyes. ]
I'm not going to die, Shijou.