1, 6, 11, 32, 38
i was mad at first but yeah, this is pretty much the questions zara would be most likely to ask arata
1. “I saw your browser history.”
“Oh.” Arata calmly intoned, kind of surprised that this was really a topic of discussion that was being breached. “What’s the big deal about that, then? It’s just a log of the history of my browsing online, yeah? I don’t get what you’re going on about.”
Zara seemed very concerned specifically about how much time Arata spend daily on the “Nethack wikia”.
“What. What’s the problem,” Arata calmly asked, “Nethack is a very difficult game that requires a significant amount of strategy. Listen,” Arata explained, “This is a serious problem I need serious help with. I have to do this, Zara. I have to do this.”
6. “How many times do I have to tell you?”
“I mean, are you legitimately asking me? Because, if you’re asking me,” Arata thoughtfully responded, “I think my best estimate would be like... maybe 27. 27 sounds like it’s about right. I mean, I have no idea what you’re talking about, but regardless of what it is, 27 seems right.”
Arata then rubbed his hand, having burned it on his own curler for the 12th time this week.
11. “Is that a lobster?”
“Yeah! I named him Okusa,” Arata proudly claimed, waving the lobster around by the tail, having just recently procured it from his jacket. Somehow. He seemed pretty nonchalant about it, but the danger he was putting it in disturbed Zara to a certain extent - they were pretty sure that that lobster was no longer living.
However, despite expressing this concern, Arata seemed nonplussed. “Aren’t Lobsters, like, virtually immortal, or something?...” Arata shook the lobster a tad before determining that his hypothesis on this was wrong. “Ah, well... it might be useful later, though, so, better keep it.”
Saying that, Arata stuffed it back into his jacket. Where it “belonged”.
32. “Are you okay?”
“H-huh?” Arata stuttered, surprised that Zara would be asking that of someone like him. “U-uh... yeah. Yeah, I guess I’m okay. Th... thank you. For uh, asking, and stuff.”
He trailed off while he fiddled around with his fingers, his face glowing a bright red as he started giggling softly to himself. It wasn’t until Zara pointed this out to him that he snapped out of this stupor.
“Ah - uh, sorry, I just... I dunno, I don’t usually get asked that question. So really, thanks.” He smiled softly, still heavily embarrassed, but very appreciative.
38. “You ordered a moon bounce?”
“Don’t question my purchasing choices. I will buy as many moon bounces as necessary. They’re integral to my plans,” Arata said, ominously.
Without giving Zara any time to respond, he immediately clarified. “My plans to create a house out of moon bounce castles. It will be the Bouncy Castle Castle. And it will be magnificent.” He clenched his hand into a fist as he looked off into space, determination, idiotic or otherwise, practically twinkling in his eyes.
