[kaiba shakes his head, a quiet no. but strikingly clear and impossibly insistent, as only he could ever be.]
It's not just an off day. It's off an day, an off week, an off month...
[someday an off year, if they got unlucky. and considering their track record so far, that unfortunate trend seemed likely to continue.
the point was that you can't bullshit a bullshitter and this was starting to sound an awful lot like bullshit. not the mean kind, the malicious kind, just the sort of convenient lie you told yourself just to get by. and he was more than familiar with those. it's why he sees right through it, because even if yugi didn't mean anything by it, he can't subsist on it.
he can't survive that way. it was death by a thousand cuts, turned inward rather than out.]
And it's not normal. It hasn't been normal since the day you picked up that dusty old deck and blasted me with Exodia.
[his arm tightens around yugi. less aggressive, more protective.]
"It's okay not to be okay." Shouldn't you say something stupid like that too?
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It's not just an off day. It's off an day, an off week, an off month...
[someday an off year, if they got unlucky. and considering their track record so far, that unfortunate trend seemed likely to continue.
the point was that you can't bullshit a bullshitter and this was starting to sound an awful lot like bullshit. not the mean kind, the malicious kind, just the sort of convenient lie you told yourself just to get by. and he was more than familiar with those. it's why he sees right through it, because even if yugi didn't mean anything by it, he can't subsist on it.
he can't survive that way. it was death by a thousand cuts, turned inward rather than out.]
And it's not normal. It hasn't been normal since the day you picked up that dusty old deck and blasted me with Exodia.
[his arm tightens around yugi. less aggressive, more protective.]
"It's okay not to be okay." Shouldn't you say something stupid like that too?