[Aww, Alice, you're cute when you smile like that! It vaguely reminds him of how Ishimaru lights up when he gets ridiculously happy, but that makes sense. You're female Ishimaru, after all!!]

Yeah, alright! Let's do it!

[Mondo takes a moment to prepare himself, to set the scene in his mind's eye and to figure out exactly how he's going to start this. It sounds much more natural this time around.]

So, we've been really good friends for awhile now, right? Normally I'd say I'd never fucking change it, 'cause we make great friends and all that, but well... I've kinda been thinking about maybe being more than friends, y'know? Will you go out with me? I mean, I'm not gonna be great at it, but I figure we'll figure out how this fucking thing works as we go, right?

[...well, he tried... At least this time he was much more confident?]