#akiyama vc: how do i answer this without having to explain why it's used nowadays

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"Bro, what's-a simp?"

Akiyama could’ve sworn he felt his neck crack from the sheer speed at which he swivelled to look down at Itsuki. The innocent question had come supposedly out of nowhere, and provoked its own set of accompanying questions from him; who had she heard the term from? In what context had it been used? Where, when, and most importantly, why had she thought to ask him of all people? 

Although he tried to keep his discomfort at being put on the spot too obvious, he shifted, rubbing the nape of his neck and stalled wordlessly as he wracked his mind for a way to answer without actually answering.

     ❝ Uhhh...  First off, where’d you even hear that? ❞  As if he were looking for the answer himself, he shifted his gaze up. ❝ Ah. Well. You know... what’s the original meaning. English word —- Simple? Don’t go using it with people, it is an insult. ❞