Forty. [Audio // English]

[nantokanare]

How many fingers am I holding up?

[Edit:] One more time

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[psychoticracer]

If you don't know, you're in worse shape than I thought.

[nantokanare]

That's not the answer, Mr. Erol.

[psychoticracer]

Of course it's not. You're that coherent, at least.

[nantokanare]

You'll never get it if you don't start guessing.

[psychoticracer]

You won't trick me that easily.

[nantokanare]

[Laugh.] I didn't think I would.

It's weird not being able to see on one side.

[This admission could mean a lot of things. That he's having a hard time adjusting, that he wants his eye back, that he's tired of walking into doors...

Or, you know, it could just be small talk.]

[psychoticracer]

There's a doctor now, you know.

[Aw. He's touched that Akagi opens up like this to him.

... No wait, he's just bored. Carry on.]

[nantokanare]

I guess. Killing myself is probably easier though.

[psychoticracer]

[Akagi, don't kill yourself. You might not come back. And then who would Erol coerce into sexual favors as payment for training?]

If you're afraid of the new doctor, I suppose.

[nantokanare]

[I'm sure he'd manage to find someone.]

That would take longer.

[psychoticracer]

[Not with the passengers warning every newbie about him off the bat.]

Didn't figure you'd take the easy way out.

[nantokanare]

[Maybe he'll happen upon another anomaly like Akagi. It could happen.]

Taking the hard way just to take the hard way is pointless.

[psychoticracer]

Of course you don't take the hard way just to take the hard way.

You do it for what you gain. The easy way rarely comes with any benefits. You put in nothing, you gain nothing. You know exactly what the possible outcomes are.

There's no risk.

[nantokanare]

There is risk, risk that's completely out of my hands. There's nothing to rely on, no skill, no care or hard work. Just luck.

It's a true gamble.

[psychoticracer]

[Erol snorts.]

It's in your comfort zone. You're determined not to step out of it. You made sure you knew what would happen beforehand, tricking others into doing it first. One way or the other you have the outcome mapped out.

The way you go on, I thought you'd be eager to try something unknown.

[nantokanare]

On this boat the unknown is a waste of time.