[It's odd, almost, to see a Ginoza Nobuchika who responds nearly in defeat to that obvious baiting. There isn't any of the flustering, the prickliness, the expected indignation. Kagari doesn't know everything that's happened since they parted ways at Nona Tower, but it's obvious whatever it was, it's affected his former superior deeply. There's a new weariness in the other man that reminds him a little of Kou-chan in these last couple years that he's known him, and it smooths over that initial vicious impulse.]
Like someone backed one of those police vans over me.
[Still blunt, though. He flops back down on the pillow, then, not really sure how to approach this. It's weird. Ginoza was the one who first recruited him, throwing down the metaphorical rope by which he could finally escape from his own personal hell. But there's always been a sharp division between them; Kagari was the latent criminal, the one who was flawed, damaged, dangerous. The one who didn't belong in society, and Gino was the one meant to keep him on a leash. Kagari has never hated him, no more than he's hated society at large, but being equals with Ginoza Nobuchika is oddly uncomfortable, when their relationship was originally premised on himself being an inferior class of human being.]
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Like someone backed one of those police vans over me.
[Still blunt, though. He flops back down on the pillow, then, not really sure how to approach this. It's weird. Ginoza was the one who first recruited him, throwing down the metaphorical rope by which he could finally escape from his own personal hell. But there's always been a sharp division between them; Kagari was the latent criminal, the one who was flawed, damaged, dangerous. The one who didn't belong in society, and Gino was the one meant to keep him on a leash. Kagari has never hated him, no more than he's hated society at large, but being equals with Ginoza Nobuchika is oddly uncomfortable, when their relationship was originally premised on himself being an inferior class of human being.]
Be better if you snuck in some booze, though.
[He ... may or may not be kidding ??? kagari pls]