Revenge doesn't get you anything! It doesn't bring anyone back, it doesn't make it feel better!
[ The words are torn out of him, a sharp denial of everything that Takasugi's said.
Even as a different scene begins to rise around them — Takasugi's memory filling the space, threading through reality — he rejects it. He rejects that hatred, refuses to let it fill him. Just as he'd done years ago.
But still, he understands. It's all too easy to understand, when he'd felt himself on that precipice, when he'd stood there and made that choice, facing down the call of vengeance, how easy it would be to turn to it and lose himself in its call. ]
I understand. I understand, but I don't want that. I'll never hate the world. There are still people here to protect. People who can still lose things. People I can keep from feeling the way I've felt.
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[ The words are torn out of him, a sharp denial of everything that Takasugi's said.
Even as a different scene begins to rise around them — Takasugi's memory filling the space, threading through reality — he rejects it. He rejects that hatred, refuses to let it fill him. Just as he'd done years ago.
But still, he understands. It's all too easy to understand, when he'd felt himself on that precipice, when he'd stood there and made that choice, facing down the call of vengeance, how easy it would be to turn to it and lose himself in its call. ]
I understand. I understand, but I don't want that. I'll never hate the world. There are still people here to protect. People who can still lose things. People I can keep from feeling the way I've felt.