[ Wait—? Actually taking him at face value? It's a funny effect of Sizhui's brand of unvarnished earnestness that immediately makes him almost want to downgrade from the point, cast it in less serious tones, laugh it off. The other's missed a cue in Mat's script; he was supposed to fight him on it, argue a little about how he's misunderstanding cultivating, and they could carry on.
Ugh. It's so hard to troll and maintain the chip on his shoulder when Shizui is being like this. Chipper, complete with exclamatory punctuation. Nice.
Lamely, after a delay trying and failing to think of how to reverse course without entirely undermining himself ass over tea kettle: ]
I'm aiming not to take a punch to the nose in a tavern to put those healing abilities to the test.
[ Thank you doesn't sound right. Neither does it's fine, do what you have to do.
Another pause, another helping of lameness: ]
I wasn't really going to ask you for a spontaneous public performance.
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Ugh. It's so hard to troll and maintain the chip on his shoulder when Shizui is being like this. Chipper, complete with exclamatory punctuation. Nice.
Lamely, after a delay trying and failing to think of how to reverse course without entirely undermining himself ass over tea kettle: ]
I'm aiming not to take a punch to the nose in a tavern to put those healing abilities to the test.
[ Thank you doesn't sound right. Neither does it's fine, do what you have to do.
Another pause, another helping of lameness: ]
I wasn't really going to ask you for a spontaneous public performance.