[...The door to professor Conrad's office opens slowly to reveal Lee standing there. He felt it in his heart the moment it happened, but he has just heard the news.
....He appears stiffened in shock, his eyes completely widened and lips parted in a most horrifed expression, walking ever-slowly into the school corridor, at which his pumpkin juice
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...*couldn't prevent this, in the end; couldn't even cushion the blow.... but can, as he hopes he always will, be there*
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[...His mouth continues to hang open. The scene to anyone may have seemed as if everyone was waiting around for news of someone's death.]
...
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*though the corpus delicti in this case will not be so easy to define.....*
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.........I-....
...I was never so sure about anything in my entire life...
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*how to explain that at the time, the boy may not have been wrong?*
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[...His emotions hitting its nadir, he knows that what he is thinking may come out to be utterly ridiculous...but...
...he cannot help it.
...His voice comes out in a hoarse whisper.]
...Have I ever done anything to deserve this?
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..No....
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....
...Might it be Karma..?
...Could it be that-...
...-that perhaps I am simply condemned to live by such a fate to bear the burdens of what I may have done in my last time on earth?
...M-...
...Perhaps...
...Perhaps I have been such a horrible... detestable...execrable person in my past life...
...that I must learn to suffer from my previous misdeeds now...?
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No--
*stoops to look him in the eye*
..There would be no point in a lesson that a person could not learn from. This is not a punishment, Lee. It....
*..it is a challenge. A thing to learn from, to endure and understand and use to grow stronger. But now... here in the hallway with the wound fresh and weeping... it is not the time to talk of such things....*
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...I must have...
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*very quiet, but very forceful*
You did not.
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[...Silences himself.]
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*but this is the most dangerous crisis of all, the cusp of permanent change, and all Gai can hope is that he has chosen his battles wisely enough....*
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...unless something is done about it.]
Gai-sensei...
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