I can't interfere but that doesn't mean I can't talk to them. They can't keep focusing on you if the corruption keeps taking other people, that doesn't make any sense.
And killing you without being corrupted makes everyone just as bad. So...so they can't.
[He sounds. Oh so hopeful. It's not helpful, probably.]
They will. At best, I'll just be someone acceptable to kill if they don't find a corrupted culprit, and our luck with that won't hold forever. At worst, they'll come for revenge-- if some of them become corrupt, I'll be first on their list, and I'll be an easy target if they have you seal my ability and leave me like this.
[It's been running through his mind, over and over. There's one of him, and several who wanted to get rid of him. In his condition...
The odds are very bad. He'll have a hard time getting weapons. He isn't helpless, but it'll be far from a fair fight.]
There isn't a way out of this, if surviving relies on their good will.
I'm not going to let them! [And now he just sounds frustrated because realistically he knows Shirasu's right, and he's still angry about what Shirasu did to Axel, but it's still not fair.] People...someone has to listen. At least one person, and then maybe the others will change their mind. It's not about good will, it's about what's right and what's right is making sure more people don't die.
... you think too highly of people. It isn't going to work, Roxas-kun. They'll find a way to save her and get rid of me-- what's right to them will be removing a threat. Just as I intended to do.
[Another quick shake of his head, there, fingers curling into the fabric of his pants where his hands rest.]
You may as well save your breath. It won't save me. And if I die there's no saving them in the end, there's no point going along with all of this anyway--
That's my point. It's...there has to be another way and I'm going to see what I can do. You don't have to trust me, but I'm doing it anyway.
[But...he goes quiet again.] ...it's not going to mean much to you right now, but dying's not so bad. Or, at least, what happens after that. So what are you going to do, just wait for it to happen? I never thought you'd be the one to just lay down and die.
...just try to relax for today. Nobody's going to do anything right away, so there's still time. And right now everything probably seems a lot scarier than it is anyway.
[Thanks to the curse.] ...what does Milla think about all of this anyway?
How should I know what any of them think? She's just been hovering around, taking me wherever she pleases-- I don't know why she's playing at this in the first place.
Maybe it's not worth it, and maybe it's a useless effort. Maybe when this is over you'll find a way to hurt somebody else. But it's going to be worse if I don't even try again.
[Huff. He's busy staring at Shirasu then, angry and frustrated but also...questioning.]
If you've guessed, then you shouldn't be like this, you're almost as bad as them--
[-but he cuts himself off there, shaking his head. whoever they are, he doesn't want to continue that thought.]
...I regret listening to what you said.
[if he'd kept up the paranoia, if he'd been more suspicious of everyone, if he hadn't let himself get a little complacent a week after the fact-- this might not have happened.]
That helps. [There's a half-smile and he sits back a little, giving Shirasu another once-over.]
...I know Milla's guarding you, but otherwise you're going to be by yourself, and when you're feeling like that it sort of sucks. [To be blunt.] There's...I still have something I have to do, but I don't have to do it to you yet. I don't have my healing magic either, but I can try to help somehow.
If you do a small task for me, I can at least get some painkillers to last you until tomorrow. I'd just give them away, but...[Handweighing motions. The universe is particular.]
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[It's not particularly reassuring, right now, and he shakes his head.]
They were already working against me. That isn't going to change now.
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And killing you without being corrupted makes everyone just as bad. So...so they can't.
[He sounds. Oh so hopeful. It's not helpful, probably.]
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[It's been running through his mind, over and over. There's one of him, and several who wanted to get rid of him. In his condition...
The odds are very bad. He'll have a hard time getting weapons. He isn't helpless, but it'll be far from a fair fight.]
There isn't a way out of this, if surviving relies on their good will.
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[Another quick shake of his head, there, fingers curling into the fabric of his pants where his hands rest.]
You may as well save your breath. It won't save me. And if I die there's no saving them in the end, there's no point going along with all of this anyway--
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[But...he goes quiet again.] ...it's not going to mean much to you right now, but dying's not so bad. Or, at least, what happens after that. So what are you going to do, just wait for it to happen? I never thought you'd be the one to just lay down and die.
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[The thought of it agitates the fear further, leaves him a little shaky.]
... I'll find some way. Find something I can use to defend myself.
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[Thanks to the curse.] ...what does Milla think about all of this anyway?
[Why is he asking...]
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[maybe when the affliction is gone.]
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... I wasn't thinking about your list at the time, but-- that changes nothing about it.
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[Jerk.]
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[There's definitely bewilderment mixed with the fear now, because what is he even supposed to do with this? What kind of fool--
...no, he supposes he knows what kind. He's known them before.
He doesn't entirely mean to say it, but he breathes out:]
If you haven't already realized it's not worth it, you're blind.
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[Huff. He's busy staring at Shirasu then, angry and frustrated but also...questioning.]
Explain it to me. Why isn't it worth it?
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[...he leaves it at that for now, though. that might be something to ask when shirasu has more clarity.]
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Do you regret any of it at all?
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[-but he cuts himself off there, shaking his head. whoever they are, he doesn't want to continue that thought.]
...I regret listening to what you said.
[if he'd kept up the paranoia, if he'd been more suspicious of everyone, if he hadn't let himself get a little complacent a week after the fact-- this might not have happened.]
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That's your choice. [He's not going to argue that right now.] But I'll ask you again tomorrow anyway.
[A pause.] Do you want me to leave?
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I don't know.
[The answers come one after the other, and he runs his fingers restlessly through his hair.]
You're-- it's still there but I don't... think that I'm afraid of you.
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...I know Milla's guarding you, but otherwise you're going to be by yourself, and when you're feeling like that it sort of sucks. [To be blunt.] There's...I still have something I have to do, but I don't have to do it to you yet. I don't have my healing magic either, but I can try to help somehow.
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[He suggested it, after all, even if it was in an attempt to save his own limbs-- and look how that turned out.]
But I don't-- know what else you could do to help.
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[he has alcohol thanks to milla letting him keep the sake jug, and he has probably had worse.
mostly, he just doesn't want to think about tasks right now. it just leads to considering the previous one.]
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