cyclists | audience: tsurumaru

Like you even know what your age is. [Says Roxas, who is like two years old and acts like he's eighty sometimes.]

Should I start to complain about my back?

[ HE'LL DO IT ]

[He makes a face.]

I think I'll pass on that, thanks. [But he still sounds sort of amused.] I never said it was a bad thing.

[ the rejection makes him laugh a little ]

People would never believe me if I called myself an old man anyway.

I don't think so either. They barely believe Jiji as it is.

It's annoying, isn't it? He keeps saying he's too old and brittle to spar with me, when that's definitely not true. I'm going to hit him.

[ tsuru will never not be mad abut this ]

[Wow. Relationships sure are weird.] Wouldn't he just hit right back?

Oh! If he does, maybe we'll accidentally start sparring?

[ no ]

That could work. [No!] Sometimes I end up in fights with people, too, without really meaning to. It works out fine.

[Sometimes you just pull someone into their own heart to beat their ass as a test, it's fine.]

[ he nods his head, as if this is a good idea ]

Do you normally win?

Who do you think you're talking to? Of course I do. But my opponents don't mind.

[And his enemies are dead, so. It works.]

I actually heard a lot about you being really good.

[ so it's good to know roxas isn't modest

(like, unironically, tsuru thinks that's great) ]

[IMMEDIATELY PERKING UP.]

Who else told you? [He's very pleased, and also what's a modesty and can you eat it? Roxas knows he's good and doesn't even see why he should pretend otherwise.]

Well...

[ it looks like he's going to answer. and then, ]

Guess.

[TSURU NO. Roxas pouts for a moment to think....]

...prooobably not Ookurikara because he'd have to admit I'm good at what I do. And not Axel because he's kind of a jerk sometimes. [...] Uh...Nana? Or Xion? Definitely not Hisoka because he's just a bad person...

[...Roxas fights a lot, it's fine.]