Yes, well... [Matoba flips through to the middle of the magazine, frowns at something as his eye scans it, and flips it shut to tuck it back into the magazine stand.] Just because you haven't needed it yet, that is no reason not to have that knowledge tucked away in case you do.
[What a lecture! One could never know too much... Not if you were strong enough. Perhaps there were men with weak minds who would break under the pressure of learning certain truths of the world, or under the weight of the responsibilities they found in themselves upon learning them.]
[For Matoba, who was sculpted for it, the tools to grapple with that realization had been instilled in him long ago, at the cost of the other things that might once have been in his heart.]
You know, I haven't looked into that myself. [And the idea amuses him, it seems, by the curl of a smile on his lips. He leans on the counter as Kim tucks his notes back.] After that Night Parade of theirs, I honestly didn't feel as though I needed to learn any more about how they view themselves. It was nothing that surprised me, really.
But perhaps if you find something of interest amongst ayakashi authors, Kim-san, you should recommend some books to me. Hm?
[Matoba speaks of it like a lark. There was no serious consideration being given to the value of an ayakashi's opinion of themselves. In this attitude, it was perhaps more obvious for Matoba, how he might react to at least some of his core values being challenged: by laughing, and dismissing it out of hand.]
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[What a lecture! One could never know too much... Not if you were strong enough. Perhaps there were men with weak minds who would break under the pressure of learning certain truths of the world, or under the weight of the responsibilities they found in themselves upon learning them.]
[For Matoba, who was sculpted for it, the tools to grapple with that realization had been instilled in him long ago, at the cost of the other things that might once have been in his heart.]
You know, I haven't looked into that myself. [And the idea amuses him, it seems, by the curl of a smile on his lips. He leans on the counter as Kim tucks his notes back.] After that Night Parade of theirs, I honestly didn't feel as though I needed to learn any more about how they view themselves. It was nothing that surprised me, really.
But perhaps if you find something of interest amongst ayakashi authors, Kim-san, you should recommend some books to me. Hm?
[Matoba speaks of it like a lark. There was no serious consideration being given to the value of an ayakashi's opinion of themselves. In this attitude, it was perhaps more obvious for Matoba, how he might react to at least some of his core values being challenged: by laughing, and dismissing it out of hand.]