[Gintoki finally seems to have gotten his fill from the enticing little candies. He finally steps away, pivots to face the kid now as he pops another few beans into his mouth. He chomps down on them, and reaches up to idly scratch at his face.]

Most of the shopkeepers are like this. Like NPCs from DragonQuest. They walk around and live their lives and give you a couple lines of dialogue over and over again... but that's about in on their depth.

So they aren't functioning like we do in this place. Guess it means we're more important "characters" to the plac...

[Ow. Pain blossoms up the side of his face and wracks his thoughts. He sucks in a breath between his teeth.

The... hell was that?! A violation of the rules? Of his role? Damn if he knew... How annoying.]