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[And then they began to play Shogi. Instead of making a million beginner mistakes, Silver pays attention and takes his sweet time making moves. It doesn't leave him error free, but it definitely makes for a better learning experience.]

[Games that end too quickly are boring, anyways. It's more interesting when the other person really thinks their moves over.

Plus Shikamaru like the sound of the slow clicking tiles, himself. Between that and the rain outside...

He looks out the window, his room being one of the few in the building that has one.]

It's really coming down out there.

...It's not that bad. [It's not the storm from a month ago, anyway.] Besides, it's nice to hear.

Heh. [He wasn't complaining, for once. Shikamaru leans backwards on his hands to get a better view of the window.]

[You're gonna need those hands to play, you know. Or at least one of them.]

[Gosh, the way you take forever on your moves it could be a while.]

[Well there I just moved, okay? Rude.]

[And he responds to that by leaning back forward and making his move five seconds later, scratching his stomach near the scar.]

[...Don't stare at it. Don't ask. Don't stare at it, don't ask.]

What happened to you? [This time it only takes him about twenty seconds to decide on a next move.]

Huh?

[He's just going to take this moment to point at the big scar, okay.]

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Aa. [He makes a move with his Rook, and continues on in the same tone he used to speak about the weather before.] I got shot on a mission. Back in March, I think? The end of it.

[...He got shot. Let's not touch on that and just stick to the mission part.]

What kinda mission?

It was a one-time thing. There was a flesh-like entity that had consumed an abandoned rogue faction facility of the Malnosso's, and threatened to breach the containment field they had around it.

They kept losing the men they sent in, so they called for some Luceti residents to handle it.

[...Sounds gross. Silver keeps quiet, but his face says enough.]

Yeah, that was about our faces too.

[And with good reason. Ugh.]

But it ended better than I anticipated.

[...What, did you expect it to end really badly?]

Fun fact: questions are pointless if you don't ask them.

How did you expect it to go? [And how did it go? You know, besides the whole shot but lived thing. ...Or he'd assume lived. Ugh, Luceti...]

It was a suicide mission, plain and simple. I knew when I signed up no one was expected to make it out alive.

Yeah, and? [Sorry, Shikamaru. "Suicide mission" doesn't translate properly into Silver language.]

Give it some more thought.

You really thought it would turn out that badly? [This so goes against his shounen principles.]

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