002 (Video) - 14 is basically an adult ok

[osakastrut]

I ain't exactly proud of how I handled stuff when I got here, but I gave it a lotta thought, and I think I've got everythin' figured out now.

[Toji takes on an important sounding tone.]

We're basically on our own here, living by ourselves, makin' our own food, doin' our own cleaning, payin' for our own stuff, right? So that basically makes us adults. Or at least we're bein' treated like it. And if we're bein' treated this way, we gotta live up to it. I got a job washin' dishes at a place, and I've been takin' a bunch of other odd jobs too. I can't act like a spoiled kid forever, so from now on I'm gonna pull my own weight around here.

So if anyone sees me mopin' around like a sadsack again, smack some sense into me!

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[osakastrut]

[And once again Kaworu is on the receiving end of Toji's suspicious look.]

What sort of favour?

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[salvagedsoul]

Shinji is unhappy here. Would you spend some time with him?

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[osakastrut]

[Oh. Huh. Toji doesn't know what he was expecting, but it sure wasn't that.]

Uh, yeah. Sure.

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[salvagedsoul]

Thank you.

[there is something distinctly emotionless about that "thank you," but he doesn't say more.]

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[osakastrut]

He's my friend, I was gonna do it anyhow.

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[salvagedsoul]

I think he's going to try to wander outside the city. If you hear anything about that from him, would you go along? It can be pretty dangerous out there from what I've heard.

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[osakastrut]

[What is he now, a bodyguard? But more importantly...]

Why would he go doin' somethin' like that? He got a death wish or somethin'?

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[salvagedsoul]

He's done something like that before, hasn't he?

If you want to know why, you should ask him. Shinji-kun needs others to talk to.

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[osakastrut]

Yeah, but there weren't no monsters back in Japan.

[Ugh so it's back to 'no one will answer my questions hour', is it? Fine. He'll go ask Shinji then.]

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[salvagedsoul]

Then, the reason this time must be pretty serious, right?

He won't tell me. So, please ask him if you get the chance? I'd like to know, too.

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[osakastrut]

I can try, but he probably wont tell me nothin' either.

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[salvagedsoul]

It's worth trying.