IC INBOX - kaisou

[kowase]

I'm busy. Make it quick.
(or just don't leave a message at all.)

username: dark slayer

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[sassery]

hey wow
i resemble that remark?

oh huh
tbh thats p fucking neat?
like
i cant appraise or judge anything worth shit
but i honestly think that knowing so much about those sorts of things is really helpful and also p handy
especially like if youre trying to figure out shit?
and stuff is broken???
yeah man that has to be helpful

[Were you expecting a compliment? SURPRISE.]

right ok
honestly i think like
ok this is gonna sound weird but
i think the longer you kinda hang with us
and other people on the app
it might help?
might not too
really depends

yeah ill keep it in mind
none of us are perfect so i guess like
ill do my best?
sounds cheap but honestly thats all i can do

[kowase]

I know you do. It is why I said it.

[ ...but. Give him a moment now. He's reading the next message Nero sent. And sitting up from where he's currently crouched over a table in one of his storage rooms, and he ... blinks, once. Twice?
As he tries to actually consider.

....Nero just complimented him.
Not a back-handed comment, not a sentence that can be re-cobbled together into a sort of positive statement--a bare-faced compliment.

He realises he's taken at least five minutes to respond. ]

Thank you.
That is not what I expected you to think.

[ THAT'S IT
THATS ALL THAT COMES TO MIND TO SAY
BECAUSE HE HAS NO IDEA HOW TO... PROCESS THE COMPLIMENT. He's just... thank you
nero???? ]

I dislike 'getting to know people'. I am markedly bad at it.
I speak my mind before I think it might not be taken properly.
I do not have much of a tone in English due to the fact that it is learned and this is the most I have used it since learning it.

It is not cheap, by the way.
That is pretty much the most one can ask for, or the most you should have to do.

[sassery]

ok fair

[This is a major difference between Nox and Nero. Nox will compliment people if he thinks they deserve it.

Enjoy dying, this is gonna happen a lot more.]

wait wait wait
ok like
vergil
uh
fuck
um

[This is suddenly awkward for what he wants to offer, because this is his dad but also not his dad. Fuck his feelings it's COMPLICATED.]

look if you need help learning tone and stuff
i dont mind helping
if you want it that is

...yeah
ill try to remember that

[kowase]

[ enjoy another really long, muted pause before answering because not only did you catch the man off guard with your weirdly timed compliments and genuine comments on top of apologising to him but now he's offering that... ]

...

I will make you a deal.
I will allow you to aid me with my tone and speaking with others.

And in return, I will ... teach you how to speak Italian.

[sassery]

wait seriously?
uh
im

[Now it's Nox's turn to go quiet for a long minute or three. Honestly, he was just offering because he wanted to help, he wasn't expecting Vergil to offer a trade in return.]

yeah
thats your native language right?
id like that tbh
a lot actually
youve got yourself a deal

[kowase]

I would not offer such a thing unless I was serious, Nero.

And yes. It is my native tongue. I am far less ... stiff when speaking Italian, as it is what I grew up with, and I do not have to think about my sentences before writing them out.

A deal is set, then.

[sassery]

yeah i get it

i mean
i cant promise to pick it up amazingly?
this shit isnt easy the older you get yknow?
but gdit im gonna fucking try

[kowase]

A little is better than none. Learning at an older age always proves more difficult, but anything can be achieved with enough hard work.

I have faith you will at least hold down 'conversational'.

[sassery]

yeah
tbh i dont think i remember even what i took in high school
i think it was spanish?
been so long ive forgotten the basics
conversational huh
well see
hoping ill do better then just conversations tbh

[kowase]

Come to the Auguries whenever you are free, next.
I do have a number of books that are good for basic learning of Italian, if you wish to borrow them.
Relics of my short time spent as a teacher.

[ very, very short. ]

Language is a 'use it or use it' skill.
So long as you practice, you will not forget.

I will make you practice.

[sassery]

ok noted
luckily im not too busy rn
im gonna be asking so many gd questions just warning you

yeah its like any kind of sport
you dont keep in shape and practice youll get rusty

that a promise or a threat?

[kowase]

I do not mind questions. I will field as many as you have to send to me.

And it is most certainly a threat.

[sassery]

sounds good to me
👉😎👉

[Vergil no you have just opened the floodgates for trolling.]

oh shit ok then
gonna do my best to impress tbh