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[starmark]

. . . Yare yare. What is it? Hurry up and say something already.



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[digiorno]

. . . Most of the beginning. The sixth and the sixteenth.

April is the fourth month.

[starmark]

You, me, and Jolie will make three.

...April is cherry blossom month, in Japan.

[digiorno]

Is it pretty? I don't remember.

[starmark]

It's a huge deal. People have parties just to go out and look at the trees.

It's like a canopy of nothing but pink and white overhead, and the ground looks like it snowed, with all the petals.

[digiorno]

You must hate it, then. If it's pink.

[starmark]

I usually hate it for other reasons. Girls try to get me to go with them and then fight about who I should go with, and I just get disgusted.

...There's this thing. Mono no aware. It's part of appreciating cherry blossoms, because they're beautiful but transient. It's a Zen thing.

[digiorno]

If any girls try to bother you this April, Kakyoin will probably bite them.

Because they're only around for a little while, and the rest of the year you just have the memory?

[starmark]

Right. I think some of it too is that...as flowers, they wouldn't be as beautiful if they weren't impermanent? You appreciate them more because you know that they're fragile. You don't let their fragility take away from their beauty, you find a balance in the two, and the balance is something beautiful in itself.

[digiorno]

That's a very aggressive metaphor.

[starmark]

It occurred to me that I needed to shut up about halfway through but by then I was already halfway through.

Sorry.

[digiorno]

I said aggressive, which is not the same as bad.

[starmark]

Do you want to hear the part I left off, then?

[digiorno]

Yes, please.

[starmark]

It's the national flower of Japan. They symbolize life and mortality, and how you're supposed to accept things like destiny gracefully. A cherry blossom's natural span is short, but in that time it's beautiful.

They're the flowers of warriors.

[digiorno]

Chatty flowers, aren't they.

Pretty pink flowers are symbolic of warriors?

[starmark]

"Live your life with grace, even if it's short."

Kakyoin is a cherry blossom.

[digiorno]

He really is.

Maybe next time I think about it, I can think of that instead of fours. Kakyoin and cherry blossoms.

[starmark]

Is that what day it was before you got here? April sixteenth?

[digiorno]

No. It was June. April sixth was when Bruno and Narancia died. April sixteenth is my birthday. Four and four and four. A whole bucket of cherry blossoms.

[starmark]

Your birthday isn't



It doesn't have to be four and four.

[digiorno]

I don't know what you mean.

[starmark]

You hate your birthday. Isn't that what you meant?

[digiorno]

It's a bad day. Objectively speaking, it's unlucky. So yes.

[starmark]

...Even before you met Mista, did you think that? About your birthday.

[digiorno]

Not about fours. But I knew it was unlucky. That's why I tried not to make fun of him about it, though, because it made sense.