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Lei nodded, having no shame laughing at imagining all the stupid shit Elias' sucky power was doing to him. It was like, how did he even function? "No shit? That's, like, the most horrible mundane nightmares imaginable. Trying to file basic paperwork must be hell." He raised both his hands, suddenly thinking of an idea to help. "I got an idea. What if you grew a nail and file it super sharp? That way, you'd be able to cut and scratch out little things, like tape or something."

He sighed. Objectively, that was a really polite way of putting he needed more work, but it was a blow to his ego nonetheless. "Yeah, true." He shrugged before looking back at Elias. "Hey, just so you know, I don't totally hate you for socking me in the face." Translation (from Emotionally Constipated-ese to plain English): All right, I think you're nice. Maybe we could be friends?
 
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"Eh, that's probably a good idea but I don't know." Lei's suggestion had a boatload of tantalizing possibilities for not making life a complete bother and Elias was already tempted to simply give in and say Yes, absolutely, let's do this thing! But as much as he would really like being able to do at least some everyday, there were still a few issues that he could see.

"I mean, if I did that, I probably wouldn't be able to wear gloves anymore. I could probably get away with just using strips of cloth but that's not really as safe." For the other person, he meant. Elias was pretty good at getting punched while not getting too seriously hurt in the process so he wasn't too worried about himself. And even if things did go terribly wrong, apparently he had distant relatives on the island one of them was a surgeon. Hooray for dubious, possibly nonexistent connections!

"I don't think anybody would take me seriously, though." Elias added, "I think it would also be pretty hard to form a fist."

The next thing out of Lei's mouth, however, made him blink in disbelief. Because, as it turned out, Emotionally Constipated-ese and Cluelessly Threatening-ese were in the same language family. There was a bit of a hiccup in translation, though, because what Elias heard was Let's be friends. Clueless was clueless and therefore didn't screw around with any of that wishy-washy stuff.

He laughed. "Okay, so we're friends then, right?" Really, Elias was ecstatic. This was the first time his friendship strategy actually worked. "So what happens next?"
 
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"Friends!?" That wasn't!!! Even remotely!!! What Lei was trying to say, UGH. Lei felt embarrassment rise to his face even at the suggestion that they could be friends, feeling his cheeks redden. They were absolutely not friends. Elias totally used Google Translator to decipher his Emotionally Constipated-ese because he was a monolingual plebeian who had bad fashion sense, and also, his face was funny. Lei stood up and stormed off in a huff.
 
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He looked after Lei in bemusement as the other boy suddenly turned heel and metaphorically ran off. But that was all right with Elias because the important part was the Lei hadn't actually refuted the idea of friendship. So naturally, that meant everything was all right. Maybe he just had to get used to the idea.

"Okay, bye! See you later, Lei!" In any case, there was no point in being weird about it so Elias just smiled and waved as good-naturedly as ever.

It was a good day and he felt like absolutely nothing could get him down.
 
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