[ Endo, having long since decided what to order, sets his menu down and sits back in the booth with a slight quirk of his lips.
When he thinks of Accelerator's outburst in the hospital, he treats it like a fond memory — a gift of insight that slipped through the limitations he faced at the time. Endo has mapped another of his boundaries and now has a sense of how much pressure it will endure.
At the time, he'd been messing around and enjoying their interaction mostly on a surface level, but he's since poured over their conversation a few times. There are thresholds to Accelerator's reactions, and Endo is keeping tabs on all of them, even this one — this shift from criticism to compliance.
This is natural for him — as natural as drawing Accelerator into the gang fight was at the beginning of all of this. But Endo doesn't always do it quite as consciously as it may seem. He was speaking the truth when he told Accelerator that he fell for him — that godlike side of himself, whose memory he revisits each night before bed. That means he harbors a desire to pull him closer, to keep himself entrenched in his life, to remain a permanent factor in Accelerator's mind. It also means that Endo has both a conscious and subconscious need to set a stage and shape the narrative toward his goals.
In short, Endo doesn't want to let him go. And he'll make sure he doesn't have to.
Sometimes that means testing temperament, and sometimes it means ordering coffee. ]
'Course they do. It's usually for dessert, but we'll order it early.
[ The key to restaurants like this: they just want their well-paying customers to leave happy. If a guy with a foul mouth asks for a coffee before food, they aren't going to give him weird looks. ]
What's good really depends on the kind of meat you like. What're your preferences?
[ This, too, is both natural and orchestrated. Endo wants to know what Accelerator enjoys and doesn't enjoy. His interest is in the whole package, even if his focal point is specific. ]
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When he thinks of Accelerator's outburst in the hospital, he treats it like a fond memory — a gift of insight that slipped through the limitations he faced at the time. Endo has mapped another of his boundaries and now has a sense of how much pressure it will endure.
At the time, he'd been messing around and enjoying their interaction mostly on a surface level, but he's since poured over their conversation a few times. There are thresholds to Accelerator's reactions, and Endo is keeping tabs on all of them, even this one — this shift from criticism to compliance.
This is natural for him — as natural as drawing Accelerator into the gang fight was at the beginning of all of this. But Endo doesn't always do it quite as consciously as it may seem. He was speaking the truth when he told Accelerator that he fell for him — that godlike side of himself, whose memory he revisits each night before bed. That means he harbors a desire to pull him closer, to keep himself entrenched in his life, to remain a permanent factor in Accelerator's mind. It also means that Endo has both a conscious and subconscious need to set a stage and shape the narrative toward his goals.
In short, Endo doesn't want to let him go. And he'll make sure he doesn't have to.
Sometimes that means testing temperament, and sometimes it means ordering coffee. ]
'Course they do. It's usually for dessert, but we'll order it early.
[ The key to restaurants like this: they just want their well-paying customers to leave happy. If a guy with a foul mouth asks for a coffee before food, they aren't going to give him weird looks. ]
What's good really depends on the kind of meat you like. What're your preferences?
[ This, too, is both natural and orchestrated. Endo wants to know what Accelerator enjoys and doesn't enjoy. His interest is in the whole package, even if his focal point is specific. ]