catchall; sei

[adlucem]

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[zuihitsu]

Do you enjoy being stupid? Is that it?

[adlucem]

Stop. [Oh, he sounds serious now.] You don't understand, and I won't explain, so don't ask. But it doesn't matter anymore anyway--what's done is done.

[zuihitsu]

[ She also doesn't care. Just as plainly as he was however long ago: ]

I don't have to understand to know I hate your thinking, whatever it is. [ And honestly, she probably would understand more than he thinks. ] Because it's just as insulting to say that people don't deserve to get the people they love most back with their own hands.

No matter how much they've been through.

[adlucem]

[His hands curl into fists, and he looks away.]

And if it hadn't worked? Do you think they deserved to suffer like that, too?

[zuihitsu]

Go off if you wanna. I don't care.

[ She can take whatever vitriol he has. ]

What I think they deserved was for you to talk with 'em and work together, but you have your own ideas, dontcha?

[adlucem]

I don't want to.

[He might just leave this conversation though, that's a strong possibility.]

But I don't regret what I did, regardless of how you feel about my reasoning.

[zuihitsu]

Chill out. I don't expect that. I just wanted you to be with others more or at least look at 'em more instead of hiding away from 'em, yanno?

It's really lonely, actin' the way you do.

[ She does think if he keeps this up, all he'll have is regrets, though. ]

[adlucem]

[Objectively, he knows that's true. But it's been his life for so long that what she's suggesting seems not only ludicrous, but unwelcome.

No. He has Elliot--or he did, anyway, to say nothing of what might happen tomorrow. One person is more than enough for him, and even that, he thinks, is a selfish choice he's made.]

I like it this way. [...] I don't much like this world, Miss Nagiko. The less I have to see of it, the better.