[ who knew you can just be so sad that people have to be nice to you! too bad that doesn't work in canon.
Dimitri shrugs him off, easing slightly now that he has his personal bubble back. ]
If you had discomfited me, I would have.
[ He sounds genuine about that—Dimitri is polite, yielding to minor discomforts without complaint, but he's been an authority figure for too long to be a total doormat. It's more that Satoru, while a... nuisance... has not caused any genuine harm.
Which is why the line of questioning puzzles him slightly. ]
Perhaps you were trying to test my patience? Maybe you were attempting to goad me, and see if I was a threat?
But what if those were your sincere efforts to befriend me? I would not rebuff them.
[ He doesn't know what to make of this man yet, a person who seems part provocateur and yet now a rather sensible observer. But that is the point, isn't it? They're all strangers. They're all learning. Of all the things on this train that he can show a little patience to, it's his fellow passengers, freshly arrived as they are. ]
no subject
Dimitri shrugs him off, easing slightly now that he has his personal bubble back. ]
If you had discomfited me, I would have.
[ He sounds genuine about that—Dimitri is polite, yielding to minor discomforts without complaint, but he's been an authority figure for too long to be a total doormat. It's more that Satoru, while a... nuisance... has not caused any genuine harm.
Which is why the line of questioning puzzles him slightly. ]
Perhaps you were trying to test my patience? Maybe you were attempting to goad me, and see if I was a threat?
But what if those were your sincere efforts to befriend me? I would not rebuff them.
[ He doesn't know what to make of this man yet, a person who seems part provocateur and yet now a rather sensible observer. But that is the point, isn't it? They're all strangers. They're all learning. Of all the things on this train that he can show a little patience to, it's his fellow passengers, freshly arrived as they are. ]