[And you know, of all the things to really hit her about that very pleasant little speech, it's the fact that he said you're really great that blindsides her.
She's used to hearing Ishimaru say things like that, because Ishimaru is Ishimaru and when he says "you're this or that", it rings like a statement of fact — well, of course you are, because that's how you are. But hearing it come from someone like Hagakure, who's not surrogate family, who's still that extra level of removed and somehow defined as normal in her head because of it...
When you spend your whole life in air vents, people don't really have much opportunity to call you great. And when you're in those air vents because you're stealing their stuff, they don't have much motive to, either.
So she blinks a couple of times, processing, and it doesn't occur to her that doing so probably just makes things tons more agonizing on Hagakure; eventually, though, she seems to get something straight in her head, and her voice comes out tentative when she finally works out a reply.]
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She's used to hearing Ishimaru say things like that, because Ishimaru is Ishimaru and when he says "you're this or that", it rings like a statement of fact — well, of course you are, because that's how you are. But hearing it come from someone like Hagakure, who's not surrogate family, who's still that extra level of removed and somehow defined as normal in her head because of it...
When you spend your whole life in air vents, people don't really have much opportunity to call you great. And when you're in those air vents because you're stealing their stuff, they don't have much motive to, either.
So she blinks a couple of times, processing, and it doesn't occur to her that doing so probably just makes things tons more agonizing on Hagakure; eventually, though, she seems to get something straight in her head, and her voice comes out tentative when she finally works out a reply.]
You want me? Like, to — to be your date.
[What does she feel about that...?]
...O...Okay. Yeah. Yeah, okay, if...if you're sure, yeah. Yeah! Cool.