[ Fixing himself up, at this moment? Silly Izumi, Hijikata's been staring at those tangles this entire time now. Well, not exactly staring at them, but hey, they were there. It doesn't bother him! ]

Hm. If it makes you feel any better, I met Horikawa by having some kind of hot air balloon crash on the both of us. We probably both looked like idiots as I struggled through the fabric, fell into a puddle, and Horikawa got caught up in a tangle of ropes. Then I thought he took my sword... Sort of.

[ Well, "my" sword, "his" sword. Something like that. It was honestly kind of amusing when that happened, he never thought he'd meet one of his precious swords that way! You know, Cerealia does things like that.

Though, those were... Really good memories! He kind of missed them, and Horikawa was definitely a good sword. He really misses that boy. He can definitely see how these two are alike in some ways. ]

So . . . There's no need to be formal, tt's fine. Izuminokami- I can call you that, right?