[Ouch. Again, prodding against a bruise that's particularly tender in the wake of discovering his uncle's planned betrayal, of having to explain to Natsume exactly where the Natori clan falls in the exorcist hierarchy. Matoba might have just meant it as an every day sort of jab, but it lands a little harder today. 'No small parts' indeed.
That informs his response more than anything else, shapes the direction that their usual push and pull goes: Natori leans into the self-deprecation.]
Well. It's just my fake work, after all. Who cares how I waste it?
[Of course he wasn't. (Director-san is frantically trying to overhear what Matoba is saying, suddenly nervous with the way the energy between them has shifted.) Natori can't even keep his eyes open when he kisses unless a scene explicitly calls for it; he's not going to create a record of him going so much further and leave it behind in an ayakashi's hands. The honest truth of how he ended up in this production is: he was snooping around the set when the crew showed up and the director desperately latched onto having Natori in his production. Natori played along to get a closer look at the equipment, because it struck him as deeply unusual for a bunch of ayakashi to have access to such expensive cameras and gear, and he wanted to see how they'd interact. And, of course, it took very little effort on his part, so long as he kept being a tease.]
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That informs his response more than anything else, shapes the direction that their usual push and pull goes: Natori leans into the self-deprecation.]
Well. It's just my fake work, after all. Who cares how I waste it?
[Of course he wasn't. (Director-san is frantically trying to overhear what Matoba is saying, suddenly nervous with the way the energy between them has shifted.) Natori can't even keep his eyes open when he kisses unless a scene explicitly calls for it; he's not going to create a record of him going so much further and leave it behind in an ayakashi's hands. The honest truth of how he ended up in this production is: he was snooping around the set when the crew showed up and the director desperately latched onto having Natori in his production. Natori played along to get a closer look at the equipment, because it struck him as deeply unusual for a bunch of ayakashi to have access to such expensive cameras and gear, and he wanted to see how they'd interact. And, of course, it took very little effort on his part, so long as he kept being a tease.]