[Torture. Not a hard sell, from the evidence, but still. Not an easy one to swallow. He's silent through the catchup and silent through the implied retribution can wait. Yusuke doesn't say as much aloud, but it's not hard to read between the lines. Can't really blame him for wanting to get even. But it's a surprisingly measured attitude from a kid. It's easy, understandable, and pretty damn dangerous to kneejerk toward the opposite. To want to even the score right away, to put things right again. Or at least to understand it, to put the pieces together, stop things for spiraling out into something far worse.
(Some fringe group, hunting people down to take their lives and use them for their own ends. For....what? The good of the city? Feels ironically familiar, in a way, once that part comes to light. Life's funny, that way.)
But...one thing at a time. No real chiding, yet, despite the sharpish studying look leveled Yusuke's way for the news, and the declaration, and everything that comes with it. (One thing at a time.) Still, carefully—]
Whole city's wise to them, now. [Ought to help this from happening again. Or...well. Here's hoping, anyway.] Ought to slow 'em down a little.
[He leaves the Transistor leaning against the wall and moves to counterbalance as Yusuke carefully shifts the body. Hesitating only briefly when the state of the body protests the treatment. Rich isn't (wasn't) too big a guy, even when he was at his best and better at keeping all in one piece. Yusuke—though wiry—is tougher than he looks. So, between the two of them, it shouldn't be too hard to get him up and out to somewhere a little more dignified than collapsed in a corner. Figure it out from there.]
my range is very limited, I gotta work with what I can
(Some fringe group, hunting people down to take their lives and use them for their own ends. For....what? The good of the city? Feels ironically familiar, in a way, once that part comes to light. Life's funny, that way.)
But...one thing at a time. No real chiding, yet, despite the sharpish studying look leveled Yusuke's way for the news, and the declaration, and everything that comes with it. (One thing at a time.) Still, carefully—]
Whole city's wise to them, now. [Ought to help this from happening again. Or...well. Here's hoping, anyway.] Ought to slow 'em down a little.
[He leaves the Transistor leaning against the wall and moves to counterbalance as Yusuke carefully shifts the body. Hesitating only briefly when the state of the body protests the treatment. Rich isn't (wasn't) too big a guy, even when he was at his best and better at keeping all in one piece. Yusuke—though wiry—is tougher than he looks. So, between the two of them, it shouldn't be too hard to get him up and out to somewhere a little more dignified than collapsed in a corner. Figure it out from there.]
On three.
One—
[Two—]