What, you think he's not watching you as we speak...?
[Because in the case of that assumption, there are bold assumptions on both sides of this conversation!! But Hiyori will leave it at that cheeky and mysterious pace.]
I didn't come out here into the open today expecting to get no kind of lashing. We'll see what's hurt me more by the end: You, or the barbed tongue of Vita Clotilde-Morris.
[That witch has never pulled a punch a day in either of her lives... Really it's a better way to think about it, maybe the fierce oneupmanship that Hiyori always brings to those verbal battles is actually another form of what McBurn has so keenly wanted to see. At any rate, he's cool with McBurn heading over there. Hiyori doesn't follow right at his back, instead taking a moment to exchange a couple more words with Link. He shows up in the Furnace Room basically the same time, setting his glasses case on the ledge around the kiln before stepping back.]
So, to finish... a three count? [There's this. Huge ticking. Pretty neutral and handy, though you could argue that Hiyori's affection for this clockwork is itself an advantage.] And to start, how about you count down how you want, and then I come at you?
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[Because in the case of that assumption, there are bold assumptions on both sides of this conversation!! But Hiyori will leave it at that cheeky and mysterious pace.]
I didn't come out here into the open today expecting to get no kind of lashing. We'll see what's hurt me more by the end: You, or the barbed tongue of Vita Clotilde-Morris.
[That witch has never pulled a punch a day in either of her lives... Really it's a better way to think about it, maybe the fierce oneupmanship that Hiyori always brings to those verbal battles is actually another form of what McBurn has so keenly wanted to see. At any rate, he's cool with McBurn heading over there. Hiyori doesn't follow right at his back, instead taking a moment to exchange a couple more words with Link. He shows up in the Furnace Room basically the same time, setting his glasses case on the ledge around the kiln before stepping back.]
So, to finish... a three count? [There's this. Huge ticking. Pretty neutral and handy, though you could argue that Hiyori's affection for this clockwork is itself an advantage.] And to start, how about you count down how you want, and then I come at you?