[It is rare for Liquid to sound truly shaken.
Shocked, angry, even, rarely, miserable, yes. But it takes a lot to shake him. First Yaha and now-]
Shinji Nishizono is dead. By correlation, that also means Kazuhiko Amamiya and Murata are dead too.
[His breathing comes shakily and for a moment his words come out muffled, as if against someone's
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[She's not even going to bitch at him for implying suicidal thoughts. She kind of halfway understood what he was going through.]
I can help you.
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[She let out a steady sigh, remembering how simple answers integrated in her speech pattern in the first place.]
It's the same for me. Eheheh...I laugh the hardest in the middle of a battle. [Glancing upwards, a small smirk covered her expression.] Sometimes you even forget you're sad. [After a lengthy pause, she spoke in a quieter tone.] Sometimes.
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I suppose it's a good thing. It's one of the few guarantees I have that this will not weaken me too much. Otherwise I might have headed home regardless.
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Besides... injury might be almost comforting. That's how it always worked. Shinji would cut me open and I'd heal it up afterwards.
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[She stared at him oddly as he confided the second part to her, but whatever, she had some fucked up kinks too.]
The monsters aren't Shinji though -- heheheh -- it won't be the same!
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So I'm not worried about them. That pain... right now I need it.
[He needed to be punished.
Needed to hurt, to suffer, because it was his fault, goddammit, twice he's promised to protect Shinji and twice he's failed. And there were the others to think of too. Murata. Kazuhiko.]
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[She sighed, glancing away.]
You don't need to wrack more pain upon yourself.
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[He closed his eyes, fingers twitching as if still holding onto the body.]
I will not allow myself to grow weak.
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[Gripping her gun, she turned around, distractingly looking around for any monsters in the area.]
All we can really do is to become stronger to make sure this kind of thing never happens again.
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[Even past his human limitations. That little white creature is looking more useful every day.]
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...hey, Sarina. Even though there's monsters, will you join me on the roof later tonight?
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It had been over five months though; at this point she had lost all hope of that happening.
It'd be okay as long as it wasn't that rooftop, right?]
Yeah... [She turned toward Liquid with a small smile forming on her lips.] ...if you want, I suppose. Heheheh...
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