That still puts you a good head and shoulders ahead of me. I've been trying to grab the yellow one for.... Gracious I don't even remember when I started, if I'm to be honest with you.
[He politely stands to the side, though the machine would not be given the same grace: Oengus seems fascinated by the mechanism inside of the device, moving to the other side of it in order to watch as the claw descended and grasped at the same doll he'd been fussing with for ages now. He peers as the toy was lifted up, squinting as he tried to see just how it had settled in there in order to keep it from falling out again. Not that he could make heads or tails of it, the thing just looked like it was somehow no longer quite as hefty as it'd been moments prior.]
Huh. Well done! Though I've not a single idea how you managed it.
[All that careful attention paying he was doing for nothing, no lessons learned! Oh well, he reached the box to snag it, clearly still just as pleased regardless.]
Here, allow me to repay you for that.
[As he was already fishing out a few coins to hand back to Hijikata, careful to offer them in an open palm rather than between his fingers. It would have been too easy to scratch the man otherwise, better to just play it safe.]
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[He politely stands to the side, though the machine would not be given the same grace: Oengus seems fascinated by the mechanism inside of the device, moving to the other side of it in order to watch as the claw descended and grasped at the same doll he'd been fussing with for ages now. He peers as the toy was lifted up, squinting as he tried to see just how it had settled in there in order to keep it from falling out again. Not that he could make heads or tails of it, the thing just looked like it was somehow no longer quite as hefty as it'd been moments prior.]
Huh. Well done! Though I've not a single idea how you managed it.
[All that careful attention paying he was doing for nothing, no lessons learned! Oh well, he reached the box to snag it, clearly still just as pleased regardless.]
Here, allow me to repay you for that.
[As he was already fishing out a few coins to hand back to Hijikata, careful to offer them in an open palm rather than between his fingers. It would have been too easy to scratch the man otherwise, better to just play it safe.]