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Something like a denouement
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"Hmm, and so, the uncertainty comes from...?"

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"...I don't wanna talk about it."

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"Fair enough, I won't push. But I do wanna meet him sometime, he sounds like a fun guy."

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"I guess that can be arranged. He said he wants to meet Inori, but..."

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"After his parents get Inori out of detainment I'm sure it could happen. Though he might be suspicious of me, you know, being an alpha and all. His parents were."

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"Nah, he's pretty convinced you're legit, actually."

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"Really? How come?"

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Shrug. "His mum said so, basically. Uh, from the whole way Inori... is... I got the feel that they were a bit like, well sometimes people talk big game but turn out to betray their own principles, and then his mum spent like five minutes with Inori and decided that actually it is impossible that you could suck because if you sucked you would have been found dead in a ditch and only recognisable through dental records."

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Tōkan sporfles. "Oh my god."

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"She's not wrong."

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"She's not, that was just a very evocative image."

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"Anyway. What are you going to do about your father, then?"

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"Wait, mostly, to see which of Ōta-san's feelers pan out.

"But in the meantime I am going to go have a chat with Dai."

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"...you're doing that thing."

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"...what thing?"

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"The thing where you say things as if they're the last bit of a scene in an anime, like a cliffhanger. You're not talking like people."

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"Excuse you, I am people and I am talking ergo therefore q.e.d."

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"'But I'm also gonna go talk to Dai and see what's up from his side of things, maybe prod him a bit.' Sounds much more natural, doesn't it? 'But in the meantime I am going to go have a chat with Dai' has such gravitas, such finality, you are absolutely an anime boy."

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"...called out."

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"Yeah, no shit." He flicks Tōkan's forehead then gets up. "Gonna go back downstairs, relieve Inoue and Tanaka from the burden of fielding all those questions on their own."

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"You say, as if they're not having the time of their lives. You should've seen Tamiki's face when I told her she was allowed to be a bit liberal with the truth and maybe mix in some speculation there, it was like New Year had come early."

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Snort. "Regardless."

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He gets up, too. "Toughest nuts to crack are gonna be Hōji and Karato themselves, I need to figure out an ending to this story that lets them save face when it becomes obvious they're gonna lose. Will be easier for them to back out without my father using them as scapegoats."

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"...you lie. That's how you save face in this kind of situation. You lie and then no one calls you on it."

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