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[worldbent]

[AFTER SEEING THIS]

You really have no business chiding me about any dealings with Natsume-kun.

[paperpusher]

[after several "..."s]

It was just a joke.

[worldbent]

I'm sure.

So when you are dragging him around meetings and jobs for your convenience it is a joke, and when I request his assistance a single time it is inappropriate.

How very interesting.

You know, Natori-san, I always wondered how it was that you met Natsume-kun to begin with.

Could it be you were scouting after all?

[paperpusher]

I took a nap in the grass during a shooting break and he tripped over me while looking for his cat, actually. [Which is easy for him to say all high and mighty, if he puts aside everything that came afterwards.]

Remind me, did you request his assistance? Or did you strong-arm him into going along with what you wanted?

[worldbent]

[Yeah, he's totally going to believe it just happened like that.]

How convenient that you were there at that moment.

Of course, he had two choices. You know very well my position on leaving someone like that to be left to his own devices. It would be better that way, and yet I still gave him a condition to remain free.

Do you think I don't hear about how many meetings you have taken him to? How about the time you took him along to the Yorishima residence? Or the time at the Hakozaki mansion?

Shall I continue?

[paperpusher]

[Natori isn't going to take the bait to debate each and every instance that he and Natsume have ended up in contact with exorcists-- for one thing, he hasn't done anything wrong (lately), and for another, Matoba wouldn't believe him anyway. Not after he reads those chilling words in the middle of the message: remain free.]

It isn't your call to put conditions on every teenager you happen to meet, Matoba, no matter how useful they are to you. It wasn't back then, and it isn't now.

[worldbent]

[...]

[Fine. If he wants it to be this way. Fine.]

You have always had the choice to walk away.

[paperpusher]

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