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I'm not going to try to run away... it's not like it can hurt you or anything. I mean! I don't think it can, at least...

[only his normal singing voice can do that, but stahn is wholly unaware that there's a different right now.]

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[Someone please help Stahn...]

It's better to be safe than sorry, right? Never underestimate an opponent!

[When did Stahn become an opponent, though?!]

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...An opponent?!

[stahn would also like to know when he became an opponent.]

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Right! If it's my job to stop you, that makes you an opponent!

[He's decided that this is the way things work starting now, apparently?!]

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I don't want to fight you or anything though!

[kashuu wtf.]

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[WHEN YOU HANG WITH SWORDS YOU GOTTA GO HARD.]

It's not fighting! Not all opponents have to be ones that you wanna knock out, right?

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I guess not, but... it still sounds really aggressive that way!

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You can consider me an opponent too, then!

[How does that fix anything...]

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That's.... I don't want to do that, either?!

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It's fine if we're just friendly opponents, right?

[RIGHT, STAHN!!]

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I still don't get why we'd have to be opponents at all!

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'Cause it'll help you get into the right mindset!

[The FIGHTING MINDSET.]

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...What mindset is that?

[stahn is setting himself up for this.]

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A fighting one! [He sure is.] Or a sparring one, I guess? That's like, a step down.

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I don't think we really need to be in a fighting one. Maybe a sparring one would be okay...

[that could be fun? maybe?]

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A sparring one, then! [DOES A SALUTE but it's a goofy one because he's not actually intending to fight or even spar Stahn right now, no matter what his weird ass says.]

So we're settled?

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Oh! Yeah... I guess we are...

[they can go with that even if stahn himself is still pretty... confused by this whole conversational shift. as ever.]

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[Meanwhile Kashuu just keeps on keeping on like nothing weird has happened.]

Good! O-kay, so we'll have a chance to put our sparring plans into action if you start singing again.

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...Or we can just hope the singing stops...

[how about that. please, kashuu. let him live.]

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We could, yeah, but that's the boring way of doing it.

[HE'S JOKING, THOUGH. Probably... He's probably joking. No freedom for Stahn in the meantime, though.]

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I don't think I'd mind it if I can control it. Being able to sing is pretty cool...

[like it ever stops him from actually singing. though he also doesn't quite realize that normal he... is a terrible singer. whoops.]

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[Kashuu will hear Stahn's real singing voice one day and just look at him with sad eyes of pity.]

D'you not get chances to sing a lot? Come to think of it, I've never heard you until now...

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Sometimes I'll sing something if I think of a song!

[dymlos is letting out a pained sigh—please kashuu, don't encourage him.]

Johnny's usually the one who does the singing, though. He's really amazing!

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[Glancing over to Dymlos like HM, WHY IS HE SIGHING.]

Is that another one of your friends from home...? You sing really well too, though! You should do it more!

[Little does he know he'll regret this if Stahn actually does sing after the event effects fade.]

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Yeah! He's a bard, so he's always writing songs wherever we go! I wanted him to teach me how he does it, but he said it would be a lot of work...

[good thing dymlos is here to interject and clear this whole nonsense up.

"He would need an entire lifetime to get Stahn to a passable level..."]