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[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?

[hallowedly]

That's right. After all, curses need anchors.

[potentialman]

I'll remember that, then.

[ Though it's clearly not as much of a thing in his own world, but that doesn't mean it isn't at all...something to look into, maybe?

If they actually get out of here, of course. ]

[hallowedly]

We're even, then.

[potentialman]

[ He didn't think it really required that to make it even, but okay? ]

Sure. We're even.

[hallowedly]

Thank you. And you're all right, are you? Otherwise?


( Safe from the way of whatever harm befalls teenagers with as many death wishes as acne scars? )

[potentialman]

[ What an awkward question to get now. ]

Yeah, I'm okay.

[ ...because what the fuck else is he even gonna say. ]