Yeah. [He... probably shouldn't say this to a normie, but whatever. They've all been here long enough by now.] I would've rather saved Clarte, if we could.
[Yeah. Yeah!!! That's exactly what he thinks, too.]
Even if whoever killed him wasn't a fighter--there had to have been a better way.
[Normally, Yasusada's somewhat sympathetic; he understands that the killers aren't in their right minds. But it's so hard to keep that perspective now, when it's someone he cared about.]
...We're losing everyone Buzen asked us to look out for.
As much as we can try to look out for people, it's still out of our control, isn't it? It's not your fault that we've lost who we have. You've been doing as much as you could to protect them already.
Yeah. [Which is the worst part about all of this.] Even what we have seems conflicting.
[Break things? Don't? Listen to Dreamer? Ignore them? Even if they can get the dead back, what does that have to do with stopping the refractions? It's endlessly frustrating.]
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Because Clarten gave him a chance to fight back, right? And Suki didn't really have that.
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[Maybe there are other reasons too--but that's the biggest one.]
The way they killed him... I hate it.
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Maybe they thought it was the only way, or that they were helping him somehow but...
[ shudders. this place already messes with their minds so much but to add this layer to it? bad. ]
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Even if whoever killed him wasn't a fighter--there had to have been a better way.
[Normally, Yasusada's somewhat sympathetic; he understands that the killers aren't in their right minds. But it's so hard to keep that perspective now, when it's someone he cared about.]
...We're losing everyone Buzen asked us to look out for.
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kazu reaches out to touch his arm gently. ]
As much as we can try to look out for people, it's still out of our control, isn't it? It's not your fault that we've lost who we have. You've been doing as much as you could to protect them already.
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He accepts the touch, but he doesn't look reassured.]
Even so... I can't just accept that. [If only it were that easy.] But even if I say that--I don't know what else to do.
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[Break things? Don't? Listen to Dreamer? Ignore them? Even if they can get the dead back, what does that have to do with stopping the refractions? It's endlessly frustrating.]
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