[ "Dazai-senpai..." He doesn't think that anyone's ever called him that before, but then, he can't remember ever going to school. He's not sure about it. ]
That's right! You have to! You're not allowed to call me anything else from now on!
[ It's just a joke, of course; Dazai-kun suits him just fine. He takes a moment to loop back around to Akira's first statement, ]
You're right that I have experience. I've only found one person who could beat me at Poker. It was really annoying to keep losing, you know?
[ Though Dazai has a bright expression, that of someone reminiscing on a particularly pleasant time in life, ]
I was able to beat him in the end by distracting him. I'm the only one who's managed to do that.
[It sneaks a laugh out of him, bright and a little more genuine than what he intended.]
Dazai-senpai it is, then. I'll be off to a bad start if I'm deliberately disobedient from the get-go.
[It's interesting, the way he lingers on this, though. It's a loss, but it's full of fondness, like it's something to look back on and be satisfied with.
To Akira, it's a familiar feeling.]
That example was about you, then. He must've been quite the opponent, to put that sort of look in your eyes. What did he say when you finally won?
"Even if you flip a card a thousand times, and a thousand times it come out as you expected, there is no guarantee that it will come out right the 1001th time."
[ And that very response is part of why Dazai had come to care so much. Odasaku was his 1000th time. He was something that he couldn't predict, a person who would say such strange things that he couldn't predict it.
That's why there's just the faintest of fondness here now, too. It's completely different, but it's been a long time since he's had someone who would so earnestly challenge him. If they play a thousand times, then perhaps the next one will be a victory.
Dazai prefers people who think in that way. He believes this is someone who can maintain it is as rare as it is fine.
Dazai-senpai... He doesn't dislike it. ]
... If you play chess with me 1000 times, then you might beat me on the 1000th time. If you do that, hm... What will we do? There have to be some stakes.
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That's right! You have to! You're not allowed to call me anything else from now on!
[ It's just a joke, of course; Dazai-kun suits him just fine. He takes a moment to loop back around to Akira's first statement, ]
You're right that I have experience. I've only found one person who could beat me at Poker. It was really annoying to keep losing, you know?
[ Though Dazai has a bright expression, that of someone reminiscing on a particularly pleasant time in life, ]
I was able to beat him in the end by distracting him. I'm the only one who's managed to do that.
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Dazai-senpai it is, then. I'll be off to a bad start if I'm deliberately disobedient from the get-go.
[It's interesting, the way he lingers on this, though. It's a loss, but it's full of fondness, like it's something to look back on and be satisfied with.
To Akira, it's a familiar feeling.]
That example was about you, then. He must've been quite the opponent, to put that sort of look in your eyes. What did he say when you finally won?
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[ And that very response is part of why Dazai had come to care so much. Odasaku was his 1000th time. He was something that he couldn't predict, a person who would say such strange things that he couldn't predict it.
That's why there's just the faintest of fondness here now, too. It's completely different, but it's been a long time since he's had someone who would so earnestly challenge him. If they play a thousand times, then perhaps the next one will be a victory.
Dazai prefers people who think in that way. He believes this is someone who can maintain it is as rare as it is fine.
Dazai-senpai... He doesn't dislike it. ]
... If you play chess with me 1000 times, then you might beat me on the 1000th time. If you do that, hm... What will we do? There have to be some stakes.