Ryuuken was never really... he doesn't like to speak about personal things, like my mother. Especially after she passed. I knew... my grandfather, Soken, told me that Quincy used to have arranged marriages. I guess I always assumed he didn't mean....
[a pause.]
...Were you close with her? [but he can guess she wasn't. Not if she was the help.]
[that he knew. Looking back, he could remember that much about his mother. He could never quite figure out why. She was always so gentle, so warm and loving. ...So much what Ryuuken wasn't.]
The same reason any culture would, I assume. To protect bloodlines, or wealth.
I'm sorry. Sensei never mentioned it before he was killed, and Ryuuken never taught me Quincy techniques. What I know, I learned through my Sensei or on my own. It isn't as though there were any other Quincies left to teach me.
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[and if he sounds a little winded, if his voice is a little softer than usual - just give him a moment. He'd only half-expected her answer to be yes.]
How did you...? How do you know her? [from school? Maybe they've been classmates.]
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[She sucks in a breath. She shouldn't have said that, but when he said that-she could see it. The parts that came from his mother, and his father.]
She came to live with us when we were young. She...She's a Quincy too. Auntie brought her in as a young girl to...
[She pauses.]
To protect Ishida heir. And to serve the Ishida household.
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But those words: "to serve". Does she mean...?]
...Brought in? Do you mean she was a maid? ...And... why did you live with the Ishidas, Masaki-san?
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[Oh. This is awkward. So awkward.]
I was the last Kurosaki. And...Ryuuken...Ryuu-chan...
he was the only son...
[voice]
Oh.]
You were supposed to marry.
[but they didn't. What... what could have happened?]
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I'm still a little shocked. Most of my life, I knew, or I thought I knew who I'd marry and now it's someone completely different.
[Her laugh is uneasy, short.]
Whatever I did, it must have been serious.
[voice]
[a pause.]
...Were you close with her? [but he can guess she wasn't. Not if she was the help.]
[voice]
[Did Ryuuken love her? Maybe not as much. But she is not getting into that.]
Did he...tell you why they used to have them? Arranged marriages?
[voice]
The same reason any culture would, I assume. To protect bloodlines, or wealth.
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For example...are you able to use blut yet?
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I've never heard of that technique before.
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But, we can change that. I was born with it, Ryuu-chan too, but I can teach you how to use it.
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[but Soken wasn't gonna have none of that, thank goodness]
...If I can regain my abilities in this place. Then yes, thank you. I would enjoy that.
[voice]
[She's just going to sigh. Ryuuken, she is going to blister your ears.If she ever gets the chance that is.]
...I'm sure you can. If you want to. In the meantime, I can fill you in on the theory.
[voice]
[please don't make him consider the possibility of his father in a city of sex.]
If you wouldn't mind.
[voice]
[So she likes to think. Otherwise it'd be...so complicated.]
It gives me all sorts of reasons to see you, so I don't mind at all.
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I'm... always available to discuss things with you, if you need...
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And maybe spoil you. A little.
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[WHAT IS HE SUPPOSED TO SAY TO THAT???]
A-anyway, thank you for answer my questions, Masaki-san.
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