I could put a catchphrase here but I refuse!!!

[shadower]

Don't you have something better to do than bother me? I get it, you're bored, but I was doing pretty great over here. Life's good, everything's quiet, and the sky looks amazing today. You could try going for a walk and enjoying some of that, too.

You know. Instead of tossing me into a world haunted by soul-devouring ghost things.

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[jurisimpudent]

Try me, then.

[shadower]

Gimme your hand.

[jurisimpudent]

[Edgeworth hesitates, and he wipes it sort of self-consciously on his pants before holding it out to Shikamaru. And then he pulls a face, because he's pretty sure that looked quite childish.

[shadower]

[It did. But Shikamaru turns Edgeworth's hand over and places two fingers on his palm. There's a little shock, like static, as he sends a bit of his chakra through Edgeworth's system. It's the easiest way to check all of those symptoms he just described.]

[jurisimpudent]

Ah -

[He jerks his hand away.]

What was that!

[shadower]

What was what?

[jurisimpudent]

You - I suppose - [He forces himself to relax a bit.] ...I suppose you simply shocked me.

[shadower]

[A weary sigh. This guy is seriously high-strung.]

It's just chakra.

[jurisimpudent]

...It's what?

[shadower]

Chakra. You know, the thing that makes you live.

[jurisimpudent]

...That did not feel like a series of red blood cells carrying vital nutrients and oxygen.

[shadower]

Because it's chakra, not red blood cells.

[jurisimpudent]

So you believe in such idiotic, superstitious mumbo-jumbo?

[shadower]

What do you mean "believe in"?

[jurisimpudent]

"Believe in." To hold faith in. Is the definition of the phrase ambiguous?

[shadower]

This isn't a belief thing.

[jurisimpudent]

...Regardless. Kindly try not to shock me again.

[shadower]

I was diagnosing you.

[jurisimpudent]

You were grabbing at me and discharging static electricity into my skin.

[shadower]

Don't you know anything?

[jurisimpudent]

Of course I do! I know a great many things.

[shadower]

[Running a hand over his forehead.]

Okay... Okay, I'm sorry. Maybe you're just from a place where they haven't discovered the most... basic... stuff. About life. And that's not your fault.

[jurisimpudent]

Of course we know "the most basic stuff." I should say in return that it is not your fault that you come from a place that's clearly superstitious and backwards, but it is your fault that you decide to be so smug about your idiocy.

[shadower]

It's not superstition. It's a thing that exists and I can prove it.

[jurisimpudent]

Then do so.