"You could also be a much better one if you offered it something that wasn't disgusting," deadpanned the shadow's owner.
Had he been asked, Ran would have begged to differ on the qualification of dried bonito as a non-hideous pocket item. It wasn't that he didn't appreciate the sentiment of the gesture; Yukimi's compassion was an endearing quality, and one of the reasons he loved him. It was just that, when you got down to it, compassion didn't make a smelly piece of fish any less a smelly piece of fish.
Still, he obliged the idea, and moved out of sight from the alley entrance, instead leaning against the front wall of the building on the other side of the corner to watch.
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Had he been asked, Ran would have begged to differ on the qualification of dried bonito as a non-hideous pocket item. It wasn't that he didn't appreciate the sentiment of the gesture; Yukimi's compassion was an endearing quality, and one of the reasons he loved him. It was just that, when you got down to it, compassion didn't make a smelly piece of fish any less a smelly piece of fish.
Still, he obliged the idea, and moved out of sight from the alley entrance, instead leaning against the front wall of the building on the other side of the corner to watch.