[Taki nurses his slowly, clearly seeing that there's something wrong but not really knowing how to ask or even what to ask.]
[There were a lot of signs telling him something was different about Hayato, and given he had been researching the Enhanced pretty much since the day Caldera had heard wind of them, he wasn't liking the signs. Hayato still had no idea what he was here researching, only that he was here on Battalion business.]
[If it hadn't been for having seen him less than a year prior on the battlefield, still just normal little photo-nut Hayato, he'd have assumed in the prior near-ten years apart he'd awakened as Earthkin. If he wasn't mistaken, a resistance to Poison would affect one's ability to be affected by liquor.]
[He looks away from where he'd been watching Hayato out of the corner of his eye, and knocks back nearly the entirety of his third beer in one go.]
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[There were a lot of signs telling him something was different about Hayato, and given he had been researching the Enhanced pretty much since the day Caldera had heard wind of them, he wasn't liking the signs. Hayato still had no idea what he was here researching, only that he was here on Battalion business.]
[If it hadn't been for having seen him less than a year prior on the battlefield, still just normal little photo-nut Hayato, he'd have assumed in the prior near-ten years apart he'd awakened as Earthkin. If he wasn't mistaken, a resistance to Poison would affect one's ability to be affected by liquor.]
[He looks away from where he'd been watching Hayato out of the corner of his eye, and knocks back nearly the entirety of his third beer in one go.]