( ogata )

[baori]

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[snyaiper]

[Hmmmm.]

Only if you want. It doesn't count if you don't mean it.

[baori]

[ ....

... ]

I don't think I could come up with something on demand.

[ he. looks troubled by this??? DOES THIS MEAN HE REALLY DOES PISS PEOPLE OFF ON ACCIDENT?!? ]

[snyaiper]

[Honestly that's pretty irritating on its own.]

If you're going to hate me, you really ought to put more effort into it.

[baori]

I don't hate you—we don't particularly like one another.

[ there's...a difference in that, right? ]

[snyaiper]

.... What's the difference?

[If there is, he sure doesn't see it.]

[baori]

I ignore you because I find some of the things you say to be irritating.

[ does that make sense...?? ]

But if I hated you, then I wouldn't have come here and voted for you.

[snyaiper]

[Well, that logic does make sense.]

... I suppose I feel the same way.
[He doesn't hate Giyuu. He just finds him irritating.]

[baori]

So, we both dislike one another.

[ he nods as though this is ground breaking information???? ]

[snyaiper]

[Nods.]

Though frankly, I find Kocho far more irritating than you.

[baori]

You do?

[ i'm sorry? most people prefer shinobu over him on any good given day. ]

[snyaiper]

You seem surprised.

[Ogata is not most people.]

[baori]

[ cAITIE STOP THEY CAN'T VIBE. ]

What do you find irritating?

[snyaiper]

[IM DEAD YOU CANT STOP ME.]

About her?
[He thinks for a long moment.]

It’s pure instinct, maybe.
[They’re two people with no patience who will stand there smiling while issuing threats. Like two street cats fighting over territory.]

[baori]

[ YEA I CAN....maybe.

but, hm, he'll consider ogata's words for a moment and think about what that could mean. he doesn't know him at all but at the same time... ]

I guess I can understand.

[ CAN HE THO? ]

[snyaiper]

[Yeah, Ogata looks amused at that.]

Oh? You don't strike me as someone who relies on his instincts for anything.
[Feel free to correct him.]

[baori]

I don't?

[ does ogata imagine him as a calculating person? if so, he's looking at the wrong demon slayer. ]

I wouldn't be able to slay a demon without it.

[snyaiper]

...

[Somehow Ogata had several conversations with Mitsuri on the island and this is news to him.]

What?

[baori]

[ closes eyes...

but he is??

??? what? ]

What..?

[snyaiper]

Is... the job the three of you have fighting demons?

[GOD.]
As in, the mythical creature.

[baori]

They're not mythical creatures for us. They're monsters that devour human flesh.

[ the most deadpan. ]

[snyaiper]

[CLOSES HIS EYES... In retropect Mitsuri being willing an able to wrestle a bear now makes a lot more sense.]

You know, most large predator animals are willing and able to do that in the right situation.

[baori]

[ he's not wrong and honestly, he should have been more clear but— ]

Demons were once humans but lost their humanity.

[snyaiper]

That seems like all the more reason you shouldn't be killing them.


[He means from like, the general perspective of most people. He personally doesn't care.]

[baori]

That's unexpected coming from you.

[ the fact that he brought it up though?? ]

But I show no mercy towards any demon that has consumed a human.

[snyaiper]

It's devil's advocate more than anything.

[In some ways, literally.]

I imagine you must've been quite alarmed when Anaido started yelling about demons on the bus, then.