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His brow lifts when she pauses on Mari - a bit... uneven. Skewing higher on one side than the other - hmh? Go on...
Meanwhile, he... thinks to piece things together re: Sonia? So she's like -- a girlfriend, maybe? He guesses he could get that...
And Ibuki explaining... is a relief as far as where they stand goes, but a bit of hostility stays hotly prickling under his skin.]
Auhhhh, so she's just insaaane!
[Insane like rain on your wedding day, maybe.
He... hitches a huff in. Slumps, with his nose twitching and a look askance again. It's kind of a... kind of a pouting.
In case it's some tell that he's feeling better, the light in his eyes is starting to burn down.
And he mumbles...]
...Ffffuck 'er.
Showin' up and tryin'a act like she, uhh -- ...
[He... had it, but... how was he gonna complete this thought -- ]
-- Tryin'a act like she knows ya -- ...
[A little louder and clearer the second time. With a consistent vibration of, well, mood.
And... now, with a scrape in and his eyes snapping back onto her face:]
So which is it, then -- ...
You, uhh. [BREATH.] ...You like all your friends equally?
Or you like me as much as I like you?
[Better than anyone else, is how he means, but well, uh.
She might not know that what other... two? FRIENDSHIPS he has right now are pretty shallow ones.]
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Mari-chan's the most normal girl Ibuki's met, here...
[The insinuation here is that Ibuki is the weird one. Which isn't false in any sense of the word.
But that question gets a little scoff from her, like she's offended that he'd ask that. ... Because she kinda is.
Her friends are all important to her! And she does love all of them equally. It's just, well...]
... Can't believe you're makin' me get all deep on you, but Ibuki loves all of her friends equally. She just loves them all in different ways, y'know?
All her friends are special, but in different ways.
Like -
[Here, she'll step back a bit since Lucas is clearly still prickly and steamed. All three tails starting to swish with thought, ears still folded back in a way that makes her earrings look wholly uncomfortable.]
Like you and Sonia! You two are Ibuki's top best friends, but differently...!
Lucas-chan is the fun and reckless friend that Ibuki can always count on to do something exciting; you always play Ibuki's games, even though I know you probably think a lot of'em are dumb, and you gotta lot of cool stuff that you like showing me and everything.
You're Ibuki's fun and exciting best friend!
But Sonia's the opposite kinda best friend.
She's cool and calm and sweet, and she likes it when things are just nice'n easy like when we're sitting on the couch watching one of her dramas, and she's okay with listening to Ibuki talk a whole lot about nothing, and she's always ready in case Ibuki's upset. Like she's an anchor on a super rickety boat, y'know?
Plus, she's from Ibuki's class... so she knows more about Ibuki than anyone else in this whole world.
So she's like... Ibuki's cool and steady best friend.
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The whole thing.
[She looks serious. ... About the stupidest threat in the world, but it's a serious stupid threat.]
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But that's because... Ibuki's kind of his only frame of reference when it comes to girls. Zoe doesn't count, 'cause she's his fuckin' sister. And she was insane, too.
His eyes... harden a little, when she scoffs, not... really knowing what to expect.
Nnnnno, he doesn't get what's meant by "they're all special". It sounds like a... a cop-out to him. He has favorite everythings. You can have favorites between very, very different things. He's either Ibuki's favorite or he isn't.
...But...
When she goes on, he starts to relax again. A tingle of gratification - the one that he was looking for, goodness, when she says he and Sonia are his top best friends. The tug of a... an automatic, soothed smirk at his lips, his eyelids half-lowering.
He looks aside - a "casual" move - to mutter "nahhh, I don't think they're dumb" on the games bit, which, it's true, he doesn't. It's a frickin' relief to have excuses and occasions on which to just let loose and enjoy yourself.
...And, uh. It might be selective listening, but Sonia is continuing to sound like not just a friend, and so...
They're good, then.
The anger is almost all cleared. There's still an afterburn that it'll take only time to fully die, but...
He's comfortable enough right now that he... starts to settle and move up. To reach a hand out for her shoulder. Here, is this... a sign? That yyyeah, things are cleared up between them?
In the meantime, that dumb, serious threat gets an ugly snrrrk! out of him, and bubbling up off a trail of giggling:]
-- Ahhh, you're gonna have to be fast!
[Vampires are fast, too, after all!
-- A swallow and an "mmmmh -- !"]
-- But nahh, nahh...
Don't worry about it -- !
[Still working some of the rust off to a gleaming shine.]
'S long as I'm your number one!
[And with that rust worked off, extra-selling this, seriously, please pick up on how important this is to him...]
-- 'Cause you're mine -- !
[With an unspoken, un-given thumbs-up.]