[ As a Certified Top (in his own mind only), he will go ahead and ignore any dirty implications a comment like that might have, and instead scowl a little at the main meaning she has there. He'd meant it lightly as in he wasn't an asshole at all, even though he knows that he is. She doesn't have to make it clear that she also knows that he is one though.
It's a short-lived scowl though, because her own teasing is short lived as well, his expression eventually relaxing into something more thoughtful. ]
For something like this... sure, why not? The end results are what matters, but it's not like I really expect everyone to immediately be good at everything they attempt for the first time.
[ The unsaid "unlike me" hangs in the air, though he puts in a lot more effort into improvement on a variety of fronts than he'd be willing to fess up to. ]
[Clara is a specialist at enduring terrible personalities. Her only price for it these days was that she got to make it quite clear she knew. Narumi has not wronged her in a way that she truly dislikes him, he's safe from that right now. However, if he wants her to pretend his personality is something praise-worthy that, too, is beyond her acting capabilities.]
[And there are some aspects that match up. Clara's own personality has its own ugly bumps and bruises. She fully agrees that end results are what mostly matters.]
[His unspoken challenge, though, his assertion that he was built different? Well, responding to that would mean looking away from the game at hand. It's not worth it to challenge as she works on getting the turns as sharp as she needs them to evade the monsters. With a monster chasing her and one approaching she just narrowly manages to escape up into the last fork of that T-junction. How satisfying.]
[Like, she does lose, she's still not any kind of prodigy. At this continue screen she will type into her Watch:]
Every victory is simply an application of resources.
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It's a short-lived scowl though, because her own teasing is short lived as well, his expression eventually relaxing into something more thoughtful. ]
For something like this... sure, why not? The end results are what matters, but it's not like I really expect everyone to immediately be good at everything they attempt for the first time.
[ The unsaid "unlike me" hangs in the air, though he puts in a lot more effort into improvement on a variety of fronts than he'd be willing to fess up to. ]
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[And there are some aspects that match up. Clara's own personality has its own ugly bumps and bruises. She fully agrees that end results are what mostly matters.]
[His unspoken challenge, though, his assertion that he was built different? Well, responding to that would mean looking away from the game at hand. It's not worth it to challenge as she works on getting the turns as sharp as she needs them to evade the monsters. With a monster chasing her and one approaching she just narrowly manages to escape up into the last fork of that T-junction. How satisfying.]
[Like, she does lose, she's still not any kind of prodigy. At this continue screen she will type into her Watch:]
Every victory is simply an application of resources.