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[potentialman]

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[potentialman]

I...guess so?

I'm not quite sure where you're going with this.

[hallowedly]

...Fushiguro, what do sixteen-year-old young men enjoy these days?

[potentialman]

[ The longest and most awkward pause. ]

Like, what...kind of things are you looking for? Music? Fashion? Tiktok memes?

[ Where is Nobara when he needs her. ]

[hallowedly]

...shall we say, fashion, bands and entertainment?

[potentialman]

Yuji's way more into this stuff than me, for the record.

I think Asian Kung-Fu Generation has a new album out soon, though? That should be pretty good. [ Or...maybe it came out or was supposed to come out while he was lost in the sauce (blood), but with Tokyo becoming an all-out war zone who even knows anymore. ] Ellegarden came out of hiatus for a new tour. UVERworld's last single was pretty good.

Video games...um. Monster Hunter. The new Super Smash Bros.

I don't really pay attention to fashion, I kind of tune out every time Kugisaki starts talking about it.

[hallowedly]

( Humming, humming — and through the Murmur, a faint echo, as if someone is thinking back Megumi's thoughts, holding onto them as he writes them down. )

Fushiguro, you're quite the treasury of vital information.

[potentialman]

I don't know if I'd call any of this vital.

[hallowedly]

You haven't dealt with a sullen adolescent in some time.

[potentialman]

[ Because he's busy being the sullen adolescent?

...wait, has he just been stealth-dissed. ]

Are you just going to namedrop a couple bands and hope for the best? [ Because he kind of wants a ringside seat to watch how well that works. ]

[hallowedly]

Fushiguro, I'm surprised at you. Don't you know teenagers are individuals with unique experiences?

[potentialman]

Yeah, which is why I'm wondering how much help this is.

[ What year is your teenager even from, for one thing... ]

[hallowedly]

Anything helps.

[potentialman]

[ You'd definitely rethink that if he were a 2025 kid telling you to just say "SIX SEVENNNNN!!" a lot. ]

Well, good luck, I guess.

[hallowedly]

You have no faith in me, do you?

[potentialman]

Should I?

[hallowedly]

...not at all. Stranger danger.

[potentialman]

Well, then.

[hallowedly]

Haha! How ruthless! You won't even pretend? Nothing beats a young man's brutal honesty.

Say, Fushiguro. When is your birthday?

[potentialman]

22 December, why?

[hallowedly]

Testing a theory. It must be hard, your birthday so close to the end of the year, when everyone else is getting their strawberry shortcake. And you were born in.... Tokyo? Going by the accent?

[potentialman]

Saitama, so close enough.

[hallowedly]

And you're quite intent on being a career exorcist?

[potentialman]

I guess you could put it that way.

[ ...it's not really that he's intent so much as he's been aggressively steered into it by every adult in his life, but sure. ]

[hallowedly]

Then, if I may: for your invaluable help today, in a place like this, there isn't much I can give you, except this.

Fushiguro, friend or foe or government, a professional exorcist can never reveal his true birthday or birth place.

[potentialman]

[ Huh. ]

That's not really a norm in jujutsu society. Is it because it might be used against you?