human
Subaru:  Everything was the same as usual, not a thing out of place. And yet, he’d sensed something off about his parents, and about himself. “The heck. What the heck, what happened? Yesterday wasn’t anything spec— Ugh!” When he thought back to the day before in search of the cause of that morning’s change in tone, fireworks scattered inside his head. The pain interrupted his thought process, feeling strangely as if it was preventing Subaru’s attempt to touch on his own memory. To prove whether it was so, Subaru would have to challenge the sea of his memory once more—and this he did not do. There was no special reason for the odd pain that morning. That day, his feelings of guilt had simply decided to assert themselves as pain. Probably he had been unable to look either of his parents straight in the eye because—
gpt
Kenichi:  "Subaru, can I come in for juuust a bit?" A voice came through the door, but the door opened before he could reply.
human
Subaru:  When he let out a heavy breath and turned his head toward it, Kenichi was moonwalking his way into his own son’s room. Subaru spontaneously smacked his forehead. “…Coming in before I answer kind of defeats the point of asking me, doesn’t it?”
gpt
Kenichi:  “Hey, now. With the hard bonds tying me and you, father and son, together, that’s not really nece— Er, it kind of is! Sorry, I wasn’t considering that you’re in puberty. I’ll come again after you’ve taken care of things.”
human
Subaru:  “Don’t go back to form and lob weirdly realistic conclusions out like that! I wasn’t even doing anything!” When a crack was evident in the chain between father and son, he made a show of consideration. When Subaru spoke with a ragged voice, Kenichi went “Reaaally?” with a suspicious air and entered the room once more. Then he sat on the futon and crossed his arms in Subaru’s direction.
gpt
Kenichi:  “Well, it’s fine. We’ll leave what just happened as a secret shared by the two of us alone.”
human
Subaru:  “There’s nothing that needs to be a secret! Just be honest, sheesh! All you’re doing is assaulting me before I get back to sleep again!”
gpt
Kenichi:  “I get it, I get it— So, then. Let’s get to the point. Actually, Subaru, I took time off from work today. Surprised?”
human
Subaru:  “…Yeah, I figured that. Daddy’s not at the house on a Monday morning very often. And?”
gpt
Kenichi:  “Don’t be hasty jumping to conclusions. A father-son conversation is like boxing. The jab comes first.” Kenichi’s laid-back smile and demeanor made Subaru feel like he was just drawing out the conversation. He was dancing around the main issue, using words and gestures to make light of things and giving himself and his opponent time to harden their resolve. This was a kind of habit in interpersonal relations Subaru knew well. It was not simply because the apple did not fall far from the tree—there was a separate reason, one steeped in incorrigible idiocy. “—Ow!