You Who Call Me Brother [China]

As concerned as she is about her brother's current state, Vietnam is greatly relieved when he seems to understand why she's not helping. If she was actually concerned that he would not make a full recovery, that would be different. But she's talking to Japan - it would take much more than even this to make his health an actual concern. Her brother China is holding on to a powder keg, which will explode as soon as the man now so seemingly helpless has had a chance to recover. But Vietnam simply has no ability to try to mediate any conflicts between her brothers - China would not take anything she said seriously - and Japan knows that. So if the two of them are in a disagreement, she can't do anything about it and she's not going to try.

She's also relieved that, at that moment at least, Japan doesn't look too caught up in his fever when he promises to remember her request - she feels reasonably reassured that he will, even if the rest of this day is a bit of a haze. Repeating it later might prove difficult, as she'd had such limited opportunities to speak with him as of late and if he reacts to this as she suspects he will then it would be harder to contact him in the future if he didn't already know what she wanted. Perhaps it would even be too late - which is why she dares say it here and now.

Even though she'd suspected that her words with her brother would go ignored by the others in the room, she is nevertheless prepared to face the upset expressions of a family member and a friend, both of them allies. "Cảm ơn nhiều, Kiku," she thanks Japan, gently kissing his forehead. Standing, her expression look regretful as her eyes pass over Russia - if he wishes to continue this ridiculous game of dressing up like Panda, it would be extremely difficult for her to have a proper conversation with him about it right now. But she does her best by simply giving him a small bow, as if to communicate that she means no disrespect. China might find it a bit odd for her to bow to Panda, but that's so much more benign than having her either speaking to him as if he was Russia or attempting to communicate what she would say using words that she might actually say to Panda - and she's really not in the mood to try to play that game anyway, so she hopes that her wordless gesture will suffice, at least for the moment.

Especially since her eyes now move over to the real problem: China. Who would no doubt be able to instantly see that she has gone from being simply appalled and distraught about his recent actions to being completely furious with him about something entirely apart from his treatment of their brother. "You have no right to forbid me from doing anything, brother!" she starts, her voice clearly tense and full of anger, but surprisingly soft - in fact, he'd have to listen quite carefully to catch all of her words, "I do not live here, I do not serve in your house. You can say anything you want to me, but I do not have to listen. You only help me when it suits you, which is rarely and even more rarely when I actually want it. In fact, you completely ignore my wishes and simply do whatever you want. Also, I do not need you - you could close off our borders and it would do little but leave you with less rice to eat. So what you want does not matter very much to me. If you wanted it to matter, perhaps you should have given your sister more consideration previously to now. Instead, now I am going to go away. I am going home, to my own house. And if you attempt to stop me, you will be at war with two of your siblings."

Having said that, her expression suddenly lifts. And she smiles as she adds, "Otherwise I will see you later. I believe that we have a meeting scheduled for next week? To go over the proposed patrols in the South China Sea? I will return then." She gives him the same respectful bow that she greeted him with, as if all of the words and actions in between never happened, and then turns to leave. This is definitely a mess that she wants no part of.