[Alucard decides he'll let the privacy comment go. Not because he's going to actually let this one go, he's observed enough concerning clues in Hilda's room to decide he probably should press the issue, but that the tactic is wrong.
He just can't believe he stumbled into the right one. In retrospect, it seems so obvious. Of course it's gossip that has her attention. What was he thinking otherwise?!
So he leans back a little in his chair, shrugging his shoulders.]
Oh, well, wild ones. That you took your axe to a whole host of monsters and only one managed to get the better of you. Another says that you're just using this as an excuse to skip off work for a bit and you're not hurt at all. And then there's the whole conviction that the two of us were caught in some compromising situation and that's why we've both been distant. [Okay the last one is entirely for a reaction.] Would you like me to properly clean your axe?
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He just can't believe he stumbled into the right one. In retrospect, it seems so obvious. Of course it's gossip that has her attention. What was he thinking otherwise?!
So he leans back a little in his chair, shrugging his shoulders.]
Oh, well, wild ones. That you took your axe to a whole host of monsters and only one managed to get the better of you. Another says that you're just using this as an excuse to skip off work for a bit and you're not hurt at all. And then there's the whole conviction that the two of us were caught in some compromising situation and that's why we've both been distant. [Okay the last one is entirely for a reaction.] Would you like me to properly clean your axe?