[ she really does understand the situation best of any of the Thieves. not his situation, not the motivation or the mindset it took for him to do the things he did, not the fact that he had intended from the very beginning to set himself ablaze in order to burn Shido down; not the voice of God that gave him the flint he needed to do it at all. but this situation, here and now — what they've all been left with in the aftermath of Akechi's reappearance.
he almost laughs. the corner of his mouth upturns, just a little. ]
That would have been the ideal outcome, wouldn't it? If you could have lived in a just world, where I would atone for my actions.
[ in her eyes, he imagines that a perfect world would have been one where they hauled him out of Shido's Palace after that fight with him, and bundled him off to prison along with Shido once it was all done. and by that point, he's not sure that he would have cared. as long as Shido was brought down, what else did he have to live for? if they wanted to put him behind bars and pretend that mattered somehow, what point would there have been in putting up a fight?
well. these things are difficult to visualise. he's only been alive again since he woke up on this station, and he hasn't even had time to settle into that mentality yet, to have it sink in that he has to live today and tomorrow and the day after that for no reason at all. ]
Unfortunately, that isn't how it went, and nothing you or I do will change that. You and your friends — you should know better than anyone that the world isn't just.
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he almost laughs. the corner of his mouth upturns, just a little. ]
That would have been the ideal outcome, wouldn't it? If you could have lived in a just world, where I would atone for my actions.
[ in her eyes, he imagines that a perfect world would have been one where they hauled him out of Shido's Palace after that fight with him, and bundled him off to prison along with Shido once it was all done. and by that point, he's not sure that he would have cared. as long as Shido was brought down, what else did he have to live for? if they wanted to put him behind bars and pretend that mattered somehow, what point would there have been in putting up a fight?
well. these things are difficult to visualise. he's only been alive again since he woke up on this station, and he hasn't even had time to settle into that mentality yet, to have it sink in that he has to live today and tomorrow and the day after that for no reason at all. ]
Unfortunately, that isn't how it went, and nothing you or I do will change that. You and your friends — you should know better than anyone that the world isn't just.