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I'll have to ask Tsukiyama, and we're waiting for my shoulder to get better first. But after that, sure.

[...He should probably mention that uh-]

He really beats me up, though. It's like training with Master Lance.

[Just a heads up.]

So that's where your shoulder got messed up, then. What was so hard about just sayin' so?

[Because if he really beats up Silver, if it's like Lance's training, then injuries are just part of that package.]

...I guess it wasn't.

[As long as Gold doesn't see it's a god damn bite mark, it's all good.]

[What a light air this is, completely relaxed.]

It wouldn't have been a very good introduction to that guy, I guess. Can't really blame you for not telling me that some guy who looks like a model with an odd sense of fashion beats you up tryin' to teach you to fight.

[Imagine. "Oh, you're the guy who beats up my best friend."]

Yeah. There's a lot more to Tsukiyama than an accidental injury.

[He puts a hand over his shoulder as he speaks. It's... A little warm? Just a little. But it's usually warm, so...]

[... Heh.]

Like how incredible he is?

Yeah, exactly.

[Now you're getting it!]

[for all that is good in the world let him embarrass you]

You're still no fun to tease. I'm gonna ask Ryuunosuke how he does it.

Please don't.

[Ryuunosuke teases him by being really nice and saying nice things about him and if Gold said nice things about him that would be really weird-]

Oh, I definitely will.

[You've signed a goddamn weirdness warrant. Like a death warrant, but for weirdness.]

Is he aligned to Aiada too? 'Cause from all the nice things he had to say about you, I wouldn't be surprised.

He is. And he makes flowers too.

[They're tiny and bright and neon and-]

What did he say?

That you were super cute, mostly, and that you were really fond of me.

[~Gross.~]

But also that you can take care of everyone else, pretty well from what I got, and that you're nice and kind and helped him get on his feet. Nothin' I didn't know already.

[... except the "super cute" part but that's obvious right]

...I don't get it.

[He gets that he's helped Ryuunosuke, sure, he's said that before. He... takes care of his friends? But they're his friends, of course he takes care of them.]

Why do you both think I'm kind?

[That's the part he's stuck on, because maybe his actions were kind, but he's not kind, he's lonely, selfish, scared, jealous, not kind-]

[... He isn't gonna get away with this without sounding like a sap somehow, so. Sitting up!]

Short and simple is that you just are. Crys is better at this kinda stuff than I am, but she ain't here right now.

[So. Let him count off on his fingers. ... On his good hand.]

You go out of your way to help others if you see they need help, friend or not, whether you even know them or not. Just because it's "right". You're the kind of person who thinks about others over yourself, too, even when you were just out for revenge all those years back. No Pokémon loves an unkind trainer either, you know that.

... And I mean, everything you do ultimately benefits everyone else. You do things for the good of everyone, not just yourself -- at least it's like that now, I know you were just doin' things for yourself when we were kids.

[so. You know.]

I'll bet you could ask anyone you know and get somethin' like that! In their own words, 'course, with what you've done for them, but it's like the old sayin' goes: where there's smoke, there's fire. Where there's kind actions, there's a kind person. And you are one, even if you're also an asshole who drags people into the woods at five in the morning.

[There's a few fire flowers blooming again, but they're not the most noticeable thing; what is is the sparklers floating around are, each a different color.]

...And you think I talk too much.

[Jeez, Gold. But flowers are making their way up through the cracks in his floor in god damn abundance, and the sad looking parts of the berry plants in his room are starting to look better, so what Gold said certainly did the trick.]

I think you're kind too, you know.

[Hey, Gold knows he talks a lot -- it's just usually lacking substance. This time, though, he's meant every word, though a part of him still squirms at being called "kind" as pleased as he looks and sounds.]

'Course I am! Who the hell d'you think you're talkin' to, huh? I'm possibly the kindest person in all the world, seein' as how it's my callin' to save others. I'm a natural at helpin' people out!

...Yeah. Something like that.

[Gold loves attention, and he's said before that he does things for himself. But instead of doing bad things for himself, he helps others and saves the world.

That's kindness, isn't it? If Gold isn't kind, he sure as hell isn't, either.]

[It's not the sort of kindness that first comes to mind, but it really is just that. He wouldn't be "The Hatcher" without it, either, born and raised the way he was.]

... You're not allowed to tell anyone I said all that sappy stuff to you, by the way. It'd ruin my image. Especially since this is the only time I'm sayin' anything. Got it?

[He's kind of embarrassed, okay.]

...Got it. I won't tell anyone.

[He wasn't really planning on telling anyone to begin with, really. Gold gets worked up over the weirdest stuff, doesn't he?]

Thanks for saying it.

[Silver gets worked up getting told nice things and Gold gets worked up being completely genuine. He rubs the back of his neck before picking Pibu up carefully, cradling the little Pokémon.]

Yeah, sure. No problem. [Anytime stays unspoken, but it's there. Even if it's talking sappy stuff and having this really nice mood they've got going on.

... He's standing though.] I'm gonna get goin'. I've got places to taste-test and Pibu'll take every berry off your walls if I leave him in here.

[Unless Silver doesn't mind that, in which case that'd be swell.]

Right. See you later, Gold.

[That was a hell of a rollercoaster. Good luck with your date, buddy.]

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