✱ Hidin' it will just make it worse, if anything, people will start to concern themselves more and more withcha till everyone doesn't know who you really are. We don't want that, do we?

✱ 'Course, that can be stopped if ya had a bit more self-control, but that is easier said than done, geheheh...

... maybe ya will have way more self-worth, geheheh! But, people like you for who you are, so, it's as good as it can get that people understand ya, dice-y.

✱ ... Nah, I'm just playin' 'round withcha! Seriously, ye think I act like that? Sometimes, and tis' ain't some kinda sort of advice or nun, but confidence is key, more often than not, yet you need to circle through multiple keys and struggle to find the thing that makes the doors open, one day...

[ He doesn't seem to buy in, for once in his life, his face seems to scrunch in worry. ]

✱ Sorry, feller, but I don't buy it. Seems like somethin' has been shaping you to hide yer feelings, that true?

[ Lighting up a cigar and just turning his back on Battat ]

✱ Nothin', missy.

✱ ... Ye feelin' alright, youngin'?

✱ ... Geheheheh, well, I think you've already come to a conclusion.

(if you're talking about my post I swear on everyone and my mom I did not mean it in the slightest rude way 😭)

(I meant the underage smoking but I guess you're in here too)

[ The old man doesn't accept refunds, unfortunately. ]

✱ All yours, 'sir', cherish it while ye can, geheheheh!

✱ Amen to that.

✱ Stand still, can't get ya in good frame if ya keep yammerin' on.

[ He finishes it, shoving it to their hand. ]

✱ It's you! Pretty neat, right?

[ It's rushed, and for some reason, he also added 'anime eyes' on you. ]

[ Drawing this down instead of taking a picture. ]

✱ ... Woah.

[ He stares at it for a few, before grabbing his pen, and starting to write down in another blank piece of paper he had... ]

✱ Here, read it up.