[Ryunosuke's expression grows momentarily wistful. He really does miss lawyering...
The look is fleeting, though, and he snorts lightly with amusement.]
Stated as if you didn't have a single hand involved in teaching me to be that way. [He smirks and nudges Kazuma's knee with his own, in the absence of being able to elbow him.] Well, maybe you'll get to experience it yourself soon.
[If he manages to go home like they'd discussed...]
...That was a promise we made to each other, you know. Before I left England. That we would lock horns in court again someday, when your apprenticeship finished, and you returned to Japan.
[A glance after that nudge.] So you actually learned something from me during that time? And here I thought you were letting your stomach do the talking. [Like drinking and eating the evidence. He's teasing of course.
As he listens to the "promise" they apparently made, a smile simply dances on his lips.]
That sounds like a promise I would make. I imagine my performance during Van Zieks' trial was...well, not quite up to standards. [Probably the nicest way to put it.] I certainly look forward to having a trial with you on more even grounds.
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And I'll keep spinning it as much as I have to, until you fully agree. Don't think I won't.
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From what I hear, you're just as tenacious in the courts.
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The look is fleeting, though, and he snorts lightly with amusement.]
Stated as if you didn't have a single hand involved in teaching me to be that way. [He smirks and nudges Kazuma's knee with his own, in the absence of being able to elbow him.] Well, maybe you'll get to experience it yourself soon.
[If he manages to go home like they'd discussed...]
...That was a promise we made to each other, you know. Before I left England. That we would lock horns in court again someday, when your apprenticeship finished, and you returned to Japan.
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As he listens to the "promise" they apparently made, a smile simply dances on his lips.]
That sounds like a promise I would make. I imagine my performance during Van Zieks' trial was...well, not quite up to standards. [Probably the nicest way to put it.] I certainly look forward to having a trial with you on more even grounds.