[Duo's words hit D33 hard yet again. It isn't difficult to figure out what he means.]
You too, then.
[It isn't a question. It only makes sense, really. Maybe somewhere deep down, D33 had been hoping that it wouldn't be true. But Shinigami knows him so well - he always has, even from the very beginning.
[It's funny. He's never actually had to admit it to anyone this way, before. In the City, it was apparent to anyone that spoke to him long enough, spoken of factually, just by pure virtue of his age; back home, they were legends that kept themselves in the shadows of the hopeful new era. And here...]
[Here, he was just another old vet, no reason to suspect anything abnormal about it (relatively speaking, for an imPort). No one noticed, no one questioned, and no one cared. Empathy wasn't spared for grown men on the battlefield. That was why he had to be the one to hold onto it.]
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You too, then.
[It isn't a question. It only makes sense, really. Maybe somewhere deep down, D33 had been hoping that it wouldn't be true. But Shinigami knows him so well - he always has, even from the very beginning.
[Of course he would. They were the same.]
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[Here, he was just another old vet, no reason to suspect anything abnormal about it (relatively speaking, for an imPort). No one noticed, no one questioned, and no one cared. Empathy wasn't spared for grown men on the battlefield. That was why he had to be the one to hold onto it.]
Do me a favor and lay off him.
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