[It's almost pathetic, how quickly she's stricken down by such a threat. That voice quivers, and her eyes well up with tears and she practically looks ready to collapse on the spot.

Pathetic...

But that didn't mean he felt any better about it. His voice loses that playfulness immediately, eyes falling half lidded and serious. She didn't take the bait, so he might as well be as straight with her as she's being with him.]

Look.

[Please stop crying.]

My demands are simple. If this stuff you're getting us into [Because he still doesn't know why HE'S able to move during these bad end spells while every normal citizen can't--maybe its because he's in proximity to her] is going to keep coming, I want you to make sure my brothers are okay. I don't care what it takes or how far you have to run, we make sure they're safe before anything else.

[Not quite the demand most would expect when keeping a secret as big as this. But Matatagi didn't like to sink himself to the level of people who he despised the most.

"It's not like I was going to tell anyway..." he says to himself, folding up that bill that was going to be put in that vending machine, figuring he might as well wave it for later.

"I'm surprised she didn't see right through it."]

You do that, and I'll keep all this Cure stuff secret.


...Deal?