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...not at all. Stranger danger.

Well, then.

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

Say, Fushiguro. When is your birthday?

22 December, why?

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?

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Saitama, so close enough.

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

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. ]

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.

[ Huh. ]

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

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

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. ]

We're even, then.

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

Sure. We're even.

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? )

[ What an awkward question to get now. ]

Yeah, I'm okay.

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

Ah? How fortunate. An increasing rarity, these days.

You sound surprised.

[ -- which would in fact be completely fair given how the month started, but never mind that. ]

...we've hardly been wanting for misfortunes.

[ But are you sure that's not just disappointment that more of them didn't visit him, in particular? ]

That's true.

You sound so much like him, now and then. It's in the silences.

[ ...hm. ]

Who?

The young man I'm supposed to appease. He also sounds as if he thinks his elders are juvenile.

He might have good reason for that.

That's certainly distrustful.

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