Mao's bad day isn't as bad as Sousuke's

[urzu2]

[Mao is outside the hospital ward looking dejected but typing at her laptop dejectedly.]

It's always the worst when it happens to your friends.

Comments

[soylent_genki]

Sergeant Major...i-is Sousuke going to be alright? I'd, um, check myself, but the infirmary staff told me to go back to my quarters and rest...

If Anguis...if he hurt Sousuke too...

[urzu2]

Sousuke's pretty banged up, but he's a fighter. It'll take more than that to kill him.

You, on the other hand, look so tense you might pop a blood vessel somewhere.

[soylent_genki]

I'm just worried about Bullet...and how I'm stuck here and can't do anything to help him.

[urzu2]

Kusuha, you've made a huge amount of progress towards becoming a soldier since I met you. You can hold your own in a fight, you get along with your teammates well, you're responsible, hard working and honest.

There is one area where you could use some work, though.

[soylent_genki]

W-what's that?

[urzu2]

Among the oldest traditions of humanity there is: Dealing with the stress and pain of loss and defeat with the healing property of alcohol.

[soylent_genki]

I know how to dis--

O-oh, you mean actually drinking.

Um, I'm not sure about that ma'am...

[urzu2]

You said yourself that you were ordered to go relax, and I don't know a better way. It'll be my treat.

[soylent_genki]

Drinking just because I'm upset sounds suspiciously like alcoholis...

...I'm not going to have a choice here, a-am I?

[urzu2]

It's only alcoholism if you do it all the time and by yourself. I don't think one night on the town is going to turn you into a slobbering drunk.

But of course you have a choice. I'm sure you had something else very important that you were planning on doing instead?

[soylent_genki]

Um...

...I'll meet you down at the Tower, I guess?

1/2

[urzu2]

Sounds like a plan.

2/2

[urzu2]

[Later that evening...]

-Which is why I'm saying... Why I'm saying that...

Shit what was I saying?

Oh right. You need to...to stand up for yourself more. I mean, I got you out here with just a bit of prodding!

[soylent_genki]

'm already...I mean...it's not worth fighting over, 'm I right? 'n you wouldn't tell me to do anything BAD.

[Yeah she's had like two wine coolers, give her a break]

[urzu2]

[She spends several seconds trying to decide if she would make Kusuha do anything bad, having had about three times as much to drink as her cohort.]

...Naw, I wouldn't do that. I'm talkin' more about Bullet. When, not if, when we find him, you oughta just jump 'im, 'n don't let go.

[soylent_genki]

J-jump him? What d'you mean?