Now, by what standards are you describing 'get along'? Standards I would recognize, or yours?
[She understands perfectly well that Akechi 'gets along' with other people in the way fire gets along with flesh. And perhaps more to the point, she perfectly well knows that 'kindly persona' still carries with it the same barbs and blades, merely cloaked in politeness and plausible deniability.]
[Of course, she asks this question with warmth and humor, because while she finds it all both puzzling and entirely too obvious all at once, she accepts it as the way of things.]
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[She understands perfectly well that Akechi 'gets along' with other people in the way fire gets along with flesh. And perhaps more to the point, she perfectly well knows that 'kindly persona' still carries with it the same barbs and blades, merely cloaked in politeness and plausible deniability.]
[Of course, she asks this question with warmth and humor, because while she finds it all both puzzling and entirely too obvious all at once, she accepts it as the way of things.]