He made a face like he smelled something foul hearing she didn't know her father. Yeah, that was just lovely parenting there. If they were in the same world, he'd been looking that s.o.b. up right now to go kick his ass. "He might've been doing you a favor if he was that big of a jackass."

He shrugged. "Maybe not but, what about a father figure? Someone-" He paused to cough again. It took him a minute to get it out- this was really getting old fast- but soon he was staring at a petal much like the one Kyoko had been spitting out, except black. "Now it's just trying to be overdramatic."