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Loveless – Intermission

Ritsuka: What’s going on here? Things are really starting to get tense. I wonder if everyone’s okay.

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Soubi: Tense?
Ritsuka: Yeah? A dangerous kind of feeling.
Soubi: Who do you mean by ‘everyone?’
Ritsuka: People like Midori and Ai...
Ritsuka: And Kio!
Soubi: Kio’s fine.
Ritsuka: How do you know?!
Ritsuka: I don’t understand...
Soubi: If he’s not okay, I’ll just go save him.
Soubi: Another person wouldn’t know, huh?

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Ritsuka: Go save him?
Soubi: That’s right.
Soubi: I’ve decided what to do so Kio will be fine. I’ll go save him.
Ritsuka: I’m surprised...
Ritsuka: That’s the first time I’ve heard you say
Ritsuka: something like that...
Soubi: ................
Ritsuka: You’re really... Really friends aren’t you?
Soubi: Well... that’s because we’re two of a kind.
Ritsuka: !?
Ritsuka: You’re not alike at all!!

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Soubi: We both have greedy qualities...
Soubi: It seems surprising, doesn’t it?
Ritsuka: A little. I thought you were pretty generous...
Ritsuka: you gave me sweets
Soubi: Personality certainly is in the eye of the beholder.

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Kio: I’m going over to him...
Random student: Agatsuma!? Don’t do that.
Random student: If you don’t leave him alone he’ll make faces at you.

Kio: But ...
Kio: I like his pictures so I want to be his friend.
Random student: The picture and the person are different things.
Random student: If you mess with him you’re going to be sorry.
Kio: Morning. I like your butterfly motif.
Kio: I’m Kaidou. I like your paintings.
Kio: What’s the heck? I’m being completely ignored? What a waste.
Soubi: ..............
Kio: It bothers me that you don’t have any friends.

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Kio: Hmm...
Kio: A cigarette?
Kio: Isn’t that gross? The faculty at this school hates smoking.
Soubi: The reason I’m here is to paint pictures.
Soubi: I didn’t come to make friends.
Kio: Saying something like that, you must be really lonely.

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Kio: That shows that you’re way too serious.
Kio: You have to have fun when you’re young!!
Soubi: Don’t touch me...

Ritsuka: So then you became friends.
Ritsuka: Like Yuiko and me? I’m bad at making friends, too...
Soubi: Hahaha...
Soubi: Selfishly giving kindness... Constantly meddling...
Soubi: Really I would have always ignored him, but...

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Soubi: He had a tattoo on his back.
Soubi: He had a beautiful tattoo on his back.
Ritsuka: A tattoo??

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Soubi: The goodness and kindness of Kio’s personality...
Soubi: and his sympathy. I didn’t want any of it.
Soubi: Only his tattoo caught my interest.


Soubi: Tattoo?
Kio: Oh, didn’t I say? Of course, I’m not really trying to hide it.
Soubi: How strange... To think that you’re that kind of person.
Kio: Really? You didn’t guess? Someone with a lot of piercings probably has a tattoo, right?

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Kio: My tattoo is real. By real I mean that I would swear to it.
Kio: You also have an interest in that right?
Soubi: I do. A lot of interest.
Kio: Even though you ignored me until now. Are you a fetishist?

Ritsuka: ............. So you like...
Ritsuka: tattoos?

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Soubi: .......... I was completely captivated by that story. With what kind of feeling was the ink inserted?
Soubi: What kind of risk did Kio take to swear to it?
Ritsuka: He...
Ritsuka: He didn’t say he loved that person.
Ritsuka: No way... Soubi... you have a tattoo...
Soubi: Hm?
Soubi: Of course not. That would hurt, wouldn’t it?

That was Soubi and Kio’s beginning