...His Lord, friends, or retainers had evidently not given the artist a very accurate description, then. Ishida's portrait showed a man with ordinary black hair (and little of it, too). "Ah. Then... perhaps they were simply guessing at his appearance. Or had the wrong man described to them, because that picture is neither delicate nor red-haired." Perhaps it had been done after his death by someone wanting to show he was plain and unattractive?

"...I really am starting to think that the historians since your time have done a rather slipshod job, even accounting for bias and reinterpretation," Fuu said. "That, or you are even better than I thought at keeping a straight face."

Given the tenor of his other jokes morbid as heck she tended to doubt he was funning, however.