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I can't see you hurting a fly. [Robot or not, Genos, Kido has a perception of you that is probably totally wrong.]

[wounds]

[Cyborg, actually.]

I think you have a very flawed perception of me.

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I think you treat me too well.

[wounds]

Obviously I'm never going to hurt you.

You're my best friend.

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Yeah but I wasn't always. First thing you ever did was protect me.

[wounds]

You're in the same situation as me. Of course I'll protect you.

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Not everybody would. Unless it's Jin, you're harmless. [She shakes her head.] I like it about you.

[wounds]

Glad you think so highly of me.

[That's... not at all true...

He's ripped off a monster's legs before. LIKE- He's dangerous, but completely in control of himself.]

Right... about the managers. [How alone are they?]

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[Yeah she doesn't know that. She couldn't imagine Genos actually hurting anybody who didn't deserve it.

They're in the taxi yet. Kido glances back. They're being followed, but you can't cram bodyguards in the same car as two musicians especially when one is taking up as much space as her tiny body allows.]

Yours isn't bad, is he? [She'll kill him.]

[wounds]

[The monster was murdering people.

Not that he remembers that.

Genos sits so properly and stiffly, these days, he seems a bit stiff.]

No.

[His voice drops to soft enough that only Kido can hear it.]

None of them have heartbeats.

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What? [She can't help but give him an incredulous look.] How do you know that?

[wounds]

[He pulls his sunglasses down, the glow brighter than usual, and if she looks closely, stats and graphs in them.]

These. Remember when you thought I was wearing armor?

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Yeah. What... what are your eyes doing?

[wounds]

I can't turn it off, sorry. They're giving me your vitals.

I wasn't wearing armor. My chest is metal and whatever power's my eyes is back too.

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[Well that's almost violating.] That's... useful I guess.

[wounds]

[SORRY.

Though for Kido the stats say Genos could take her in a fight.

Not that he wants to.]

Anyway, the managers don't have heartbeats. I'm not sure what that means. They could be robots, but there's also a possibility of vampires, zombies, and all matter of other things. The quickest and simplest way to figure out what they are exactly is to try to take one of them out. I'm fairly confident that I could fight anyone of them, but I don't know how many repairs I would need.

[Genos you're still mostly flesh.]

However, it would... probably make our situation worse.

[Not that he cares that much about himself, but my god does he care about Kido.]

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[She knows that. She absolutely knows that. She's a damn stick.

She immediately scowls.] You'll get yourself killed doing that. I'm not going to let you be stupid.

[wounds]

[Sai... Makoto and Kido would be hurt if he died. Probably.

Why'd he have to go and form attachments? This is inconvenient.]

Has anybody died? Plenty of people have been fired but I haven't heard of anybody dying.

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[Devastated if he died, actually. Absolutely destroyed. Want to see Kido fall apart? Get yourself hurt. There's a part of Kido that feels like Genos is all she has.]

There's been some close calls, but I don't think so. Don't sent the precedent.

[wounds]

Santiago said she didn't want to 'start over', whatever that might mean.

While it could possibly be dangerous, I think it's worthwhile if I do fight one of the managers. Yours in particular hasn't been good to a single person in your band. If they aren't, say, robots, then I certainly won't feel guilty about fighting Jin. She's been awful to you and your band. If any manager deserves to be hurt then it's her.

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[It seems like her heart stops when he says that, then it races. She shakes her head.]

Don't be stupid. Lesedi already hates us. You can't kill one of our managers. She'll kill you.

[wounds]

[He really doesn't care about himself.

But he scowls as he notes her heartbeat. He can't do this then.]

Maybe you'd get a better manager.

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Or maybe she'd end up killing me instead! [Yeah guess who cares about five hundred times less about her own life than Genos's. But she knows how it works. The longer time stretches on, the more she hates holding herself ransom...] You saw what they did to Tiger because of me!

[wounds]

[This is bad for the both of them. Their sliding scales of importance have their own lives at the bottom, and the other near the top.]

They were punishing him too. It wasn't all you.

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And that's how I ended up blind, remember? [To hurt Tiger. To make him watch.] It's too dangerous. We'll figure it out some other way.