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[huaaaaagh]

What, you want to hear me bragging about how great my stats are back home again? Because I can do that.

[experiencepoints]

It doesn't count as 'great' when the same stats mean totally different things.

[huaaaaagh]

They're not different! They're just higher across the board!

[experiencepoints]

Yeah, you use higher numbers to mean the same things as our lower ones, that's all!

[huaaaaagh]

[OKAY, YES, BUT]

They're still good stats.

[experiencepoints]

Anyway, the point is, are you getting those.

[huaaaaagh]

What, right now?

[He taps the toe of each shoe to the floor in turn, then rocks back and forth on them, feeling it out.]

Maybe a little. They're lighter than they look, shaving off the extra weight usually increases speed. And they're sturdier, too. But my existence here isn't dictated by stats, so I can't tell for sure.

[experiencepoints]

Please. Do you want to know your stats here?

[huaaaaagh]

...I want to ask, but at the same time, it would probably just make me feel depressed to hear it.

[HE KNOWS THEY'RE GONNA BE SHIT]

[experiencepoints]

[She shrugs.]

Well, it's up to you, but I won't judge.

[huaaaaagh]

Maybe I'll just give it some thought.

[It could be incentive to get stronger, later, but he's not really in the right mindset for that now.]

Thanks for the offer anyway.

[experiencepoints]

No problem.

Aren't we getting a little sidetracked, though?

[huaaaaagh]

Right, sorry--

[He hastily goes to swap the new shoes back out for the old ones, and... picks up the box, because yeah, he is buying them. It's not like the paw pattern will show up unless he walks on stuff that leaves footprints, and how often does that happen?]

Want to find yours?

[experiencepoints]

I guess so. We can take care of that wager later.

[She heads towards the women's shoes now, at least? good luck, kirito.]

[huaaaaagh]

[Well, he sure as hell isn't gonna back down. While she looks for heels, he's going to look for the elusive chicken-feet shoes.]

[experiencepoints]

[You do that. Nightingale's just going to be looking through the options, and if one particularly bizarre box happens to vanish when she touches it, he probably won't notice that, right?

In the meantime, she's just going to be looking between several options of heels.]

... Really wish Sparrow was here to give advice.

[huaaaaagh]

[He probably won't, he's busy gawking at a pair of multi-tentacle-toed boots. He's close enough to hear her, though.]

Another friend of yours from home?

[experiencepoints]

No, my teammate from the castle. Yellow Sparrow. She likes weird, frilly fashion, even though she spends all her free time in her world trekking around the wilderness to tame monsters.

She's... basically my little sister.

[huaaaaagh]

I should've guessed from the name.

[The theme is fairly obvious.]

Well, sometimes it's useful to have a little sister around to tell you what to wear, isn't it?

[experiencepoints]

Yeah, you really should have.

When you put it that way, it just sounds kind of sad...

[huaaaaagh]

Ahaha... I didn't mean it that way. I'm just trying to avoid feeling homesick, I guess.

[experiencepoints]

... Talking about it can help.

You've got a little sister?

[huaaaaagh]

[He resists at first, but... well, she's not wrong. Maybe it'll do him some good. And it's not the subject he's trying to avoid.]

...Yeah. Technically she's my cousin, but we were raised together as siblings, so...

[Shrug. It used to matter, but not anymore.]

Everyone calls her Leafa.

[experiencepoints]

"Leafa", huh... That's a surprisingly normal name, for another world.

[her standards on this shit.]

[huaaaaagh]

[And now he's going to wonder, like, forever what she'd have said if he had said "Suguha" instead.]

Normal is relative, isn't it? It's actually kind of a weird name where we're from.