[Only Atsushi would worry about hating someone who’s treated them so terribly in the past. Perhaps Akutagawa thought his hatred was justified, but it certainly doesn’t excuse his behavior. That being said, Chuuya himself would’ve been as ruthless as necessary to capture Atsushi had that been his primary task. Innocent or not, orders are orders, and Chuuya would’ve followed them to the letter.

And yet here they are, enjoying a public bath together on a world that’s not their own.]

If that’s the case, then you gotta do it, right?

[A promise is a promise, Chuuya supposes, and Atsushi is far from helpless. He hardly needs a guardian devil angel looking out for him, and yet Chuuya still has his back, whether he’ll ever need it or not.

Chuuya leans back against the side of the pool, head tilted back to look up at the stars just visible through the thick canopy of trees.]

I dunno if any of the others will ever wake up, but I think there’s more important shit to worry about now than whatever happened in the past. Keeping a promise isn’t bad, but acting like nothing has changed is stupid. Akutagawa is the type of guy who’d need it knocked into him that the ADA and Mafia don’t exist anymore.

[It was hard enough for Chuuya to accept the fact that everything he’d ever accomplished in the Mafia meant jack shit now, but it is what it is.]

Either way, I don’t plan on holding onto the past. I won’t forget it, but I can’t live in it either.