Aritoki

Don't speak to me before a match. I have no words to spare.

• MorichikaI'm your opponent for the thirteenth night. I tried to greet you, but it felt like greeting a wall.
  AritokiDo it at night.
  HazukiListen up, I can already hear the bets piling on.
• SanetoMy master doesn't speak to anyone the day before a match. Yesterday all he said was to fetch water.
  AritokiI didn't even say that. I only gestured.

I saw a hand with ink at the sleeve's edge. It took me an entire staircase to choose what to ask.

• SanetoYou stood at the foot of the stairs so long, I thought your sandal strap had come undone.
  AritokiIt had.
  SanetoIt hadn't.
• HazukiWhose hand in the copying room isn't stained with ink. So whose hand was it, then?
  AritokiDon't ask.