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honou_no_izumi) wrote2016-11-09 09:59 pm
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The Formula of Love [1/?]
Title: The Formula of Love
Series: ガリレオ/Galileo
Characters: Utsumi Kaoru, Yukawa Manabu
Summary: She'd waited almost six years without much result. Another year wouldn't have made any difference. But still, one can't help wondering...
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"Why don't we insert it into an equation: ax + bx + c = love. It cannot be solved."
"How about the area of a triangle? The width of base times height divided by 'love'. Or if it's a circle, radius times 'love'"
"The concept of love is a construct, therefore..."
It's been like... several years since they had that exchange between them; and for some reason, right now... she suddenly ended up recalling that particular conversation. How peculiar.
Yet she couldn't help recalling some other similar exchange she had with Yukawa, most of the times relating to the topic of love and emotions. In which most of the times would be met with Yukawa's argument saying that those topics were illogical. She used to be annoyed hearing that coming from him, yet lately, she sort of missed that kind of interaction with him.
Absence really makes the heart grows fonder, eh?
Pity that she didn't manage to meet any genius professors in Oklahoma whom she could have similar exchanges with. Or maybe not, hah! Half the time when Yukawa started his usual lengthy lectures, most of those intellectual jargons just passed through her mind incomprehensible. Imagine the same bombardments of scientific data and facts coming at her in English, ahh... she might not be able to survive that.
Even if her basic command in English had been improving a lot since the day she first arrived in Oklahoma, she'd still have problems communicating with the locals. And people here tend to talk so fast, and with odd accents too? She'd be lucky if she managed to survive the next few months of her training without any trouble.
Regardless, it did make her wonder. How has Prof. Yukawa been faring back home without her around? Half the time when she managed to get him to have a video chat with her, Yukawa would end up talking about dinosaurs or some peculiar topic that he suddenly stumbled into. When she asked about how her replacement, Kishitani-san, had been doing so far in her place; Yukawa barely spoke a word of it. Despite the fact she's been hearing a lot from Kusanagi about the many odd cases Kishitani had apparently solved, with Yukawa aiding her.
Did Yukawa even missed her, she wondered. Aside from the occasional souvenirs that she sent him, did Yukawa ever thought of her fondly? He'd better be doing that—or else, what should she be interpreting the relationship between her and Yukawa right now, aside from friendship? Should she really not be expecting more? Even when her heart kept missing him every free few seconds that she had?
Utsumi glanced at the germanium piece that she received from Yukawa all those months ago. It mostly served as a fancy paperweight lately, yet she couldn't stop wondering about the meaning of him giving that to her. Even when she already decided that it was futile to try figuring out how Yukawa's mind work, she couldn't stop thinking about it. She always did find puzzles interesting, unsolvable puzzles annoy her very much.
"How illogical," Utsumi mused, smiling as she repeated the usual phrase that Yukawa frequently used.
Series: ガリレオ/Galileo
Characters: Utsumi Kaoru, Yukawa Manabu
Summary: She'd waited almost six years without much result. Another year wouldn't have made any difference. But still, one can't help wondering...
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"Why don't we insert it into an equation: ax + bx + c = love. It cannot be solved."
"How about the area of a triangle? The width of base times height divided by 'love'. Or if it's a circle, radius times 'love'"
"The concept of love is a construct, therefore..."
It's been like... several years since they had that exchange between them; and for some reason, right now... she suddenly ended up recalling that particular conversation. How peculiar.
Yet she couldn't help recalling some other similar exchange she had with Yukawa, most of the times relating to the topic of love and emotions. In which most of the times would be met with Yukawa's argument saying that those topics were illogical. She used to be annoyed hearing that coming from him, yet lately, she sort of missed that kind of interaction with him.
Absence really makes the heart grows fonder, eh?
Pity that she didn't manage to meet any genius professors in Oklahoma whom she could have similar exchanges with. Or maybe not, hah! Half the time when Yukawa started his usual lengthy lectures, most of those intellectual jargons just passed through her mind incomprehensible. Imagine the same bombardments of scientific data and facts coming at her in English, ahh... she might not be able to survive that.
Even if her basic command in English had been improving a lot since the day she first arrived in Oklahoma, she'd still have problems communicating with the locals. And people here tend to talk so fast, and with odd accents too? She'd be lucky if she managed to survive the next few months of her training without any trouble.
Regardless, it did make her wonder. How has Prof. Yukawa been faring back home without her around? Half the time when she managed to get him to have a video chat with her, Yukawa would end up talking about dinosaurs or some peculiar topic that he suddenly stumbled into. When she asked about how her replacement, Kishitani-san, had been doing so far in her place; Yukawa barely spoke a word of it. Despite the fact she's been hearing a lot from Kusanagi about the many odd cases Kishitani had apparently solved, with Yukawa aiding her.
Did Yukawa even missed her, she wondered. Aside from the occasional souvenirs that she sent him, did Yukawa ever thought of her fondly? He'd better be doing that—or else, what should she be interpreting the relationship between her and Yukawa right now, aside from friendship? Should she really not be expecting more? Even when her heart kept missing him every free few seconds that she had?
Utsumi glanced at the germanium piece that she received from Yukawa all those months ago. It mostly served as a fancy paperweight lately, yet she couldn't stop wondering about the meaning of him giving that to her. Even when she already decided that it was futile to try figuring out how Yukawa's mind work, she couldn't stop thinking about it. She always did find puzzles interesting, unsolvable puzzles annoy her very much.
"How illogical," Utsumi mused, smiling as she repeated the usual phrase that Yukawa frequently used.