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Academic building, first floor.

Why?

Because you really need to haul your ass to the Dorm's North Wing, third floor.

I'm going.

[And since it's voice, those footsteps are quite audible. And quite hurried.]

What's happening?

Not really sure, but your vice-commander is angry about something. At someone.

[ really angry. ]

[That? That's never good.]

He's yelling?

[Or, as Saitou suspects - does it sound like there's a lot more than yelling going on up there?]

Well, no; I mean, he's not. Not right now, anyway.

But, a couple "Hijikata-san"s were yelled and there was a not quite yelling but very... assertive, eh—"Stay out of the fucking way." reply from him to one of them.

[ he pauses. ]

It got really quiet, actually, so...

[ seemed like something to worry about considering everything else. ]

[...that could be even worse.]

What did the other person sound like?

I'm going to guess you don't mean the ones trying to stop him.

Any of them, Nightray.

[A clue to whose ass he's going to have to kick or to whose ass he might have to scrape off the floor, he'll take either one.]

God, I don't know—

[ it's not as if he was really paying attention to what they sounded like so much as just what was going on. ]

Pretentious, self-important... cat toying with a mouse.

[ asshole cats. ]

[Saitou does not swear, nor is Saitou particularly disposed to hatred - and considering how he and Gil met, Gil's probably got something of an idea about that.

But the hiss that escapes Saitou at that description sounds like it could be a profanity-laced declaration of hatred in itself.]

[ o shit. ]

[And this would be about where he cuts this off, because he's getting close and nobody needs to listen to that shit.]

[BUT LATER...

A much less venomous, much more tired sounding Saitou will be calling him back.]

Thank you.

....Everything okay?

It might not have been, if not for your warning.

[ well, this sounds like the part where he realizes Saitou's most important person is a problem child like Oz in terms of getting themselves into dangerous situations and losing sight of what that does to the others around them. ]

That bad, huh.

...I cannot say I would have done any differently, had our positions been reversed.

[Which ought to say something about Saitou's hateboner for Kazama, given that he's supposed to be the careful one.]

[ maybe they can share hateboner stories one day, since Gil's got one of those for Zai Vessalius in the most intense way possible. ]

...Sounds like you have some trouble from back home here to make things complicated.

If one wishes to put it delicately, yes.

[ he loves delicate. ]

I see. Well, if anyone can handle it, I think you can.

[...what, really?]

I appreciate your confidence.

...Yeah? You make it sound like you don't get told it often.

...it is not that, precisely.

[More like it's "he sure utterly failed to handle this trouble at home, so why should now be any different."]