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[lapidarius]

"This is Kakyoin Noriaki. Please leave a message, I'll contact you as soon as I can."

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[lapidarius]

I can and I will, unless you'd rather I answered with 'snails'.

[silvercrusader]

Okay, first off, it's escargot, not snails. That's like if I said raw fish, okay, don't misrepresent my country.

[But shit, hmm . . .]

Rice. Oh! Shit, wait-- rice buns!

[Rice balls is what he's thinking of, actually.]

[lapidarius]

That's not...no. There's no such thing.

[Honey. No.]

[silvercrusader]

Yes there are!

[He knows Japanese food, god, Kakyoin, what are you, Japanese or something?]

The ones with-- you know! They're all compact and they've got that black stripe on em!

[lapidarius]

Black str--are you talking about onigiri? That's seaweed, not a black stripe.

[silvercrusader]

Which is black, and goes on it in a stripe, so it counts, and that's two for me!

[lapidarius]

It's green, idiot. Because it's seaweed. If anything that's half a point.

[silvercrusader]

'S more than you got, isn't it?

[lapidarius]

You don't want me to give a serious answer.

[never forget noriaki kakyoin knows how to be flawlessly polite in several countries]

[silvercrusader]

I gave you two! Two whole answers! Sushi and rice buns! What have I gotten in return, I ask you? Nothing.

[lapidarius]

Remember, you asked for it.

[DEEP BREATH]

Confit de canard, bouillabaisse, ratatouille, gougères, cassoulet...that's all I can think of off the top of my head, excuse my flawed pronunciation.

[What the fuck, Kakyoin.]

[silvercrusader]

What the fuck, Kakyoin.

[lapidarius]

My father travels. A lot. You have no concept of the amount of books he owns and the large percentage of them I've read multiple times.

[mic drop]

I never did quite manage to pick up other languages on my own without being taught, unfortunately. But I managed to retain a staggering amount of information that most people would probably term 'completely useless'.

[silvercrusader]

[See, this is what he meant: he knows a great deal about Kakyoin, what he thinks of, his battle strategies, his worries and his fears-- and yet he hadn't even known his father traveled. Hell, he doesn't know anything about his parents, beyond that they thought Kakyoin was a little odd.

But man, that's awesome. He sits up, knees to his chest.]

So what else do you know about France, hm? Parlez-vous tout français?

[lapidarius]

I don't speak a word of French, so don't start babbling at me. All I know is Japanese, English, and a very small amount of Italian.

[Shrug.]

Most of what I can recall is just a little history, basic locations and how to get from one place to another, what to eat if you're not a fan of gastropods--that kind of thing.

[silvercrusader]

I can't believe I never taught you anything. I can't believe you're learning Italian first instead of French.

[BETRAYAL. --just kidding, he's already grinning.]

Ah, well, I'll teach you when we go-- and don't keep insulting escargot, okay, that shit is delicious.

[lapidarius]

We are living with the mafia and my Hamon teacher is Italian. Of course I'm learning that first, before Jojo sends me more horrendous pickup lines I need translated.

[...he's still mad]

Anyway, it was just an example. I'm sure there's some Japanese food you would probably think sounds just as unusual.

[silvercrusader]

[He snorts-- that's funny, okay, he can't help but find that funny, he and Jotaro have roughly the same shitty sense of humor.]

I'm going to be a part of the mafia but you don't see me learning that shit. Yet.

[lapidarius]

I would get a headstart on that, if I were you.

[silvercrusader]

If I can learn English in two years, I can learn Italian over the next ten years.

[lapidarius]

It wouldn't kill you to start early, I'm sure.

[silvercrusader]

[He sticks out his tongue.]

It would, so shows what you know. Why'd your dad travel so much, anyway? For fun, or work, or what?

[lapidarius]

He's a history teacher, and he likes to be able to research things directly as well as read about them. So my family's done a fair amount of traveling.

[silvercrusader]

Where else have you been?

[lapidarius]

Let's see...I'd been to China, Egypt, and India all before, so mostly just places in that general area.