"Not easy to fight something that looks more human, huh?"
[He rolls his shoulders at that, looking uncomfortable for a brief instant. His eyes flicker away, as Akihiko works on collecting himself. It's hard to say what makes him more on edge: fighting something that looked human, or the fact that it didn't bother him as much as it should have.]
"I guess for me it's... They were out for blood. Felt like defending myself. Or... Maybe like a more deadly version of sparring...
...Saying it like that sounds messed up, I know. The more I think about it, it starts to feel unnerving. Just at the moment, I was ready to fight back and put them in the dirt, if I needed to.
I guess what I'm trying to say is... No worries about you needing to protect yourself?"
[And no grudges about what happened between them, that too.]
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[He rolls his shoulders at that, looking uncomfortable for a brief instant. His eyes flicker away, as Akihiko works on collecting himself. It's hard to say what makes him more on edge: fighting something that looked human, or the fact that it didn't bother him as much as it should have.]
"I guess for me it's... They were out for blood. Felt like defending myself. Or... Maybe like a more deadly version of sparring...
...Saying it like that sounds messed up, I know. The more I think about it, it starts to feel unnerving. Just at the moment, I was ready to fight back and put them in the dirt, if I needed to.
I guess what I'm trying to say is... No worries about you needing to protect yourself?"
[And no grudges about what happened between them, that too.]