[he knows what a chessboard looks like. never mind the fact that that's not offered unkindly. he seems -- quiet, at the moment, if nothing else. maybe a little tired, though not physically. the last couple of months have been -- something, and he's a little hurt Akechi never came to see him, while he was healing. or that Ren kept him from him. or whatever the case actually was]
[rather than get into that, however, he just asks:] But where did the stones come from? [clearly, he hasn't seen them on his trips to the mall -- or hasn't cared enough about them, for all that they're worthless here, to really register them]
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[he knows what a chessboard looks like. never mind the fact that that's not offered unkindly. he seems -- quiet, at the moment, if nothing else. maybe a little tired, though not physically. the last couple of months have been -- something, and he's a little hurt Akechi never came to see him, while he was healing. or that Ren kept him from him. or whatever the case actually was]
[rather than get into that, however, he just asks:] But where did the stones come from? [clearly, he hasn't seen them on his trips to the mall -- or hasn't cared enough about them, for all that they're worthless here, to really register them]