At least, that's what he'll say, if ever quizzed on it.
He makes it to the top on uneven footing, but determined. He thought Mikey might try to push him; so a moment of clarity is a nice fucking Option B.
Wetting his lips, he'd not.]
...yeah, I remember.
It wasn't you. You were-- [How to describe it?] --possessed by sumthin'.
[And he'd seen that violence well up in men before, especially the types who joined gangs. But this had been different. He'd seen it only one other time; when Kazutora killed Shinichiro. And he felt the spectre of its hands start to choke the throats of the participants in the Valhalla and Toman fight...
It's why he'd done what he had, in part.
He didn't know what it was; if it was real, or if it just felt real to people like Mikey and Tora; but if Mikey was saying he was living with it almost 24/7 now... that that's why he'd become like this... well.
Baji would step up behind him, putting hands in his pockets, respectfully looking on ahead at the night, not down at the crying boy-- ...man.]
...I didn't want whatever that was to hurt you or Kazutora no more. I'm sorry I 'innit do better.
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At least, that's what he'll say, if ever quizzed on it.
He makes it to the top on uneven footing, but determined. He thought Mikey might try to push him; so a moment of clarity is a nice fucking Option B.
Wetting his lips, he'd not.]
...yeah, I remember.
It wasn't you. You were-- [How to describe it?] --possessed by sumthin'.
[And he'd seen that violence well up in men before, especially the types who joined gangs. But this had been different. He'd seen it only one other time; when Kazutora killed Shinichiro. And he felt the spectre of its hands start to choke the throats of the participants in the Valhalla and Toman fight...
It's why he'd done what he had, in part.
He didn't know what it was; if it was real, or if it just felt real to people like Mikey and Tora; but if Mikey was saying he was living with it almost 24/7 now... that that's why he'd become like this... well.
Baji would step up behind him, putting hands in his pockets, respectfully looking on ahead at the night, not down at the crying boy-- ...man.]
...I didn't want whatever that was to hurt you or Kazutora no more. I'm sorry I 'innit do better.