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[starmark]

How many headaches do you usually worry about, on average?

[nibs]

[What are you implying?]

None.

[starmark]

I should take a page out of your book. I have at least a dozen.

[nibs]

You managed to find that many?

[starmark]

I live with a lot of interesting people.

You've talked to my mom, she's worth at least three all on her own.

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And yet somehow I don't think you'd rid yourself of a single one from her.

[starmark]

Not anymore. Before she got sick I probably would've answered that differently.

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Answered, perhaps. But would you have really meant it?

[starmark]

I guess that depends on what you mean by "really".

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Would your actions have matched your answer?

[starmark]

I treated her like she gave me a headache, if that's what you mean. What I said and what I did were the same, pretty much.

But I was also stupid back then, so.

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[It sounds a little bullshit. Maybe on the whole he didn't treat her well, but when it matters? Rohan finds it hard to believe that Jotaro would ever turn his back on her.]

Live and learn, I suppose.

[starmark]

Something like that.

Anyway. There's this wall thing in one part of town, like a memorial. They put the names of people who've been here and left on it. The people who run this place, I mean.

So if you're wondering about someone, that's one resource you can check to find out if they're gone or just missing.

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I'll be sure to keep that in mind for future reference.

[Though he's absolutely hoping that will be a distant future rather than near.]

I take it you've told others that they're gone.

[starmark]

Would you rather I keep a lid on it for some reason?

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No. I just hadn't assumed I'd be the first person you'd tell.

[starmark]

A few people know. It'll get around to the rest.

You're the one with the vested interest, though, on account of your unfinished business.

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Their disappearance finishes it.

[starmark]

They pissed you off that badly?

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You don't need to concern yourself with it.

[starmark]

Okay.

What's your manga series about?

[nibs]

What? Are you interested in reading it?

[starmark]

If it's interesting, then I'll be interested, won't I?

I like stories where the heroes solve problems with clever solutions. Using their environment and subtle advantages to the fullest, like they're detectives as much as they are fighters.

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Do you really think I'd write a protagonist that just punches their way through every problem?

[If so, Rohan is insulted.]

[starmark]

If the story called for it I think you would.

[LOOK AT THAT SMOOTH PROTAGONIST DODGE]