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"Surely not," she says, feigning innocence, all charm and pleasantries now. Whoops. Maybe this is not the time to antagonize.
And then he hits her with little miss and it's painfully difficult to keep her lip from curling with disgust at the phrasing. He's talking about fines and the numbers fly past her without much consideration.
"Going for a walk and loitering are hardly the same thing," she's trying to maintain her casual composure from before but there's the tiniest bite to her tone. "So unless you can come up with a legitimate grievance with me, I'll be off."
He’s squinting alright. He’s squinting real hard.
“Is that snarkasm I’m hearing?” Kotetsu puts his pen between the pages of his notebook and gives it a hard snap closed before resting his knuckles on his hip.
“Listen, little miss, I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but a fine for loitering outside of Konoha’s gates without express permission from the Hokage, accompaniment of a guide, or a notice of travel can run anywhere from 150,000 to 500,000 ryo,” Kotetsu pulls the numbers completely out of his ass as he waves his notepad at her derogatorily. He’s sure the numbers are somewhere in that ballpark…
“So if you can’t produce evidence of a travel notice or a Kage’s signature, I’ve got half a mind to smack a trespassing violation on top of the loitering charge! That’s another 75,000 to 250,000 ryo I’m sure you don’t have right now.”