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[theotherright]

Cabin 127. No calls, we text like men on our disney cruise phones.

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[theotherright]

Arthur, who has no earthly idea that Nobunaga is oblivious to his blindness, takes his comment as an empty platitude, and puts all the weight on it that an empty platitude deserves.

"Of course," he says, to all of it, and while he doesn't say it rudely, his voice doesn't rise much above the current Nobunaga level of heartfelt raw emotion. You could almost describe it as avoidant. "And... and as friends, you understand if I-I, if I want to be alone for a while."

Alone. In his cabin. Which has no other people in it. No-one but him.

"Just how is Klaus so hard to imitate anyway? I don't think we've met."

[konpeito_aji]

"Okay," Nobunaga was about to leave, but the question about Klaus instantly distracted him with a laugh. "Two things. He has a way of walking like he's forever dancing, floating on air without wings, even though he's got all the coordination of a drunk kitten. And two, he is the only person with a crazier history than mine, and he has a cadence when telling of it, like he is just speaking out loud to himself. Like he doesn't even realize someone could be listening, because hes used to being ignored. No matter how someone delved his memories, I do not think they could match his cadence. They might find themselves overwhelmed even."

[theotherright]

A crazier history than Hell and monk murder and so on? If Arthur weren't busy guarding the door like a dog standing over its food bowl, he'd find that pretty interesting.

Flatly:

"Right. Well, I'll keep an eye out for a man who looks like he's dancing."

[konpeito_aji]

"You understand poetry, Arthur," an eyeroll. It's almost audible! At least it's in Nobunaga's tone! (Not that he realizes Arthur is blind... still.) "Ask him for a story about his childhood and what it's like to have the same birthday as 6 siblings and be taught martial arts by a monkey named Pogo, and have a mechanical mother, because your father couldn't be assed to do most things as a parent right, or even bother giving you proper names, just called you by numbers, according to your usefulness to him. If he gets fazed by the question? It's not Klaus. If he just sort of sighs and asks which of the times Reginald Hargreaves failed them as a father: either drugging one son so they couldn't use their powers, or locking Klaus in with ghosts, or why Five ran away before they could even properly named? Yeah, That's my lucky number 4."

A merry hum! "Four is a homonym with death in Japan. It's considered extremely unlucky, they won't even write it the same way, as shi instead they write it as yon. It's that feared. Follow his cadence. Go as extreme as possible. You can even ask him about torture. His torturers gave up on him, he's too hardcore for them. If it's not him, I think any ghost would also give up trying to mimic his reactions. As I said, they'd be overwhelmed."