[Ginji doesn't reply for a long moment. When he does, his tone is completely serious, though not cold.]
'Honestly couldn't tell you. It doesn't make much sense to me - being cooped up with all those complicated feelings whirling around. Maybe if you came out a little more often and tried to relax you wouldn't be so cranky, and you wouldn't keep snapping at Arietta and me.
We're with you, you know. Not the opposite.
[Honestly, he wouldn't have put up with all this for so long if it wasn't to help out a good friend. Even if Ginji's the only one who looks at it like that. It may even be a little sad to say, but Asch is the closest thing he's got to a family member here. Sometimes it even feels like Ginji's taking care of them - of Asch and Arietta. Sometimes. Even if it's a stretch. Even if it's the furthest thing from what his family back home is like.]
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'Honestly couldn't tell you. It doesn't make much sense to me - being cooped up with all those complicated feelings whirling around. Maybe if you came out a little more often and tried to relax you wouldn't be so cranky, and you wouldn't keep snapping at Arietta and me.
We're with you, you know. Not the opposite.
[Honestly, he wouldn't have put up with all this for so long if it wasn't to help out a good friend. Even if Ginji's the only one who looks at it like that. It may even be a little sad to say, but Asch is the closest thing he's got to a family member here. Sometimes it even feels like Ginji's taking care of them - of Asch and Arietta. Sometimes. Even if it's a stretch. Even if it's the furthest thing from what his family back home is like.]