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“You wanna pull yourself together?”
As you walk your still begging journey, you just can’t ignore the glaring issue.
“Whatchu mean?” Coco answers while still giving the stink eye to the back of the oblivious Faunus.
“You know what I mean.”
Coco finally turns towards you. “I just don’t get it! Why him?”
“Because he found us- and what the hell am I doing explaining myself to you. You are the one with the problem here.”
“<span class="mu-i">Me</span>?! <span class="mu-i">I’m</span> the one with the problem.” She exasperates. “Now that’s some logic right there!”
“Yes. Yes <span class="mu-i">you</span>. You never even met the guy and you already wrote him off over like nothing.”
“Nothing? Alright, here's some facts for you! One, he just runned up to a couple of strangers in the middle of the desert. Two, he rushed blindly into danger. I’d say my initial assessment was spot on.”
Inspiration strikes you and you come up with a strategy. “You are right.”
“And- what?” Coco’s rant gets stopped dead in its tracks.
“We should have left him and gone on our own.”
“I- why yes, obviously!”
“And what happens then?”
“What do you mean-?”
“Tell me what happens after we move on.”
Coco answers cautiously. “We, hum, move on.”
“Yes, yes. After that?”
“What are you planning?”
“Just humor me.”
“Well, we fucking move on!”
“What <span class="mu-i">exactly</span> happened after we moved on?”
“…” Realization dawns.
“Yeah.”
“I just hate unreliable people!” By making her see the flaw in her own logic, Picaro managed to get to the root of the issue. He has learned long ago, butting heads with Coco when she was pissed was foolhardy, so he must be smarter.
“I’m pretty unreliable-”
“Stop. You know I hate when you sell yourself short Piqui.” Coco took a deep breath. “Yeah, taking him was the smart move.”
“Hey, I’m not asking you to marry the guy, just chill for a bit, okay? Besides, after this you’ll only see him in class sometimes. I promise, every time your eyes meet I will do something dumb to make him look at me.”
Coco snorts. “You fuckin’ love making promises, eh?”
“Didn’t break one thus far.”
“Oh,” her expression turns sarcastic, “so you’ll act like an idiot in the middle of class everytime one of my classmates looks at me?”
“… I take that back-”
“Only if you buy me breakfast tomorrow.”
“Again?! Why do you always ask that? You have so much more money than I do!”
“It’s not about the money.”
“And you always have those fancy schmancy, way overpriced drinks!”
“It’s not about the mone~y.”
You sigh, but inside you feel relieved you were able to change her mood. Not just because of the Grimm, but rather you just hate when she’s upset. You always have and always will.
[Coco’s mood has changed to Amazing!!! Great job!]
