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— Oh! Bap! There you are! I was looking for you!— Said Marz while approaching Baptiste, running over to him with a notebook in their hands. Right away, he noticed the very obvious difference in his friend's usual attire.
— Marz? What did you- Are you... wearing Mizuki's hat?— He asked, blinking in surprise.
—Oh, this?— Replied the hybrid, sliding two fingers over the rim of the hat they were wearing. — Yeah, Mizuki put it on my head and mumbled something about cowboys. I thought it was really funny so I left it on!
To this, the big man huffed out a laugh before bursting into giggles. — Well, isn't that something? I'm sure Cassidy probably had something to do with that.— The smile on Baptist face was bright as he recovered.
— Huh? What'dya mean?— Marz tilted his head in confusion, clearly unable to understand what the other man meant.
— Well... This is going to be a little awkward for you. You know the cowboy hat rule?
— What hat rule?— Years of living under a rock, or more accurately, in Moira's lab, clearly fucked up the way Marz saw the world, not to mention he was unaware of others' cultures.
— Well, if a cowboy puts a hat on someone else's head, it means they want to take the other person home. "Wear the hat, wear the cowboy".— After dropping that on the younger guy, Baptiste waited a few seconds for it to sink in.
After a few seconds of just standing there wide eyed, he could see Marz' eyes come back to life. — Wear the hat, wear the cowboy.— He repeated before his ears shot up, removing the hat like it burned him. — Mizuki wants me?!— They stepped back, surprised, before looking around frantically. — I need to find Mizuki!— And with that, breach ran off to look for the hat owner.