Jealousy, and how one deals with it.

[renkinjutsushi]

Short answer? Tsuzuki. And not very well.

None of this is very reasonable, but I suppose no answer to this question really would be.

I am jealous of how much Tatsumi cares for Tsuzuki, of how much of Tatsumi's afterlife Tsuzuki has had. I'm jealous of the way Tatsumi still can't let him go- even when I know I can't expect him to.

I suppose I'm

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[not_your_uke]

That's not what I've been sensing.

What happens when it doesn't work?

...

Actually, you don't have to answer that, Watari-san. It's just-- did something happen in the office while I was away?

[renkinjutsushi]

Then I get mad, Bon. Other than that, I don't know.

Nothing particularly unusual happened. Tsuzuki got nothing done was depressed missed you, Tatsumi petted him tried to cheer him up.

Why, what did you mean?

[not_your_uke]

[locked to renkinjutsushi]

Prevarication doesn't suit you, Watari-san.

I... see.

I'll be blunt, Watari-san: I've been sensing hostility from Tatsumi-san, directed at me. I had thought it was because of what happened to you, but now I'm not so sure.

What I'm sensing from you, I'm not comfortable saying. Consider Tsuzuki to be no longer Tatsumi-san's problem.

[renkinjutsushi]

[locked to not_your_uke]

Tatsumi may have been upset with you over the experimentation up until the time you left, but after that I wouldn't have thought so.

...

Whether or not you or I consider Tsuzuki Tatsumi's problem, I'm afraid it may be rather more difficult to change Tatsumi's opinion on the subject.