[This is such a funny thing to say to him for multiple reasons
But Kanda doesn't laugh, even derisively. He doesn't respond at all for a while, his gaze fixed on--the waves, maybe.
Eventually, quietly:]
I don't need anything like that. [...A little more firmly:] And you shouldn't want it either. It's only going to get harder from here on.
[It sounds harsh, just like everything else he says--but for once, it's not meant to be. It's a simple acknowledgment of fact, from someone who lives through weekends like these all the time. The closer she gets to rest of them, the harder it'll be when they die: that's just how it is. He wouldn't call her too naive to realize that, she earned that much respect from him in the cemetery--but a reminder is all he can do for her right now, when he has nothing to turn his blade against.]
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But Kanda doesn't laugh, even derisively. He doesn't respond at all for a while, his gaze fixed on--the waves, maybe.
Eventually, quietly:]
I don't need anything like that. [...A little more firmly:] And you shouldn't want it either. It's only going to get harder from here on.
[It sounds harsh, just like everything else he says--but for once, it's not meant to be. It's a simple acknowledgment of fact, from someone who lives through weekends like these all the time. The closer she gets to rest of them, the harder it'll be when they die: that's just how it is. He wouldn't call her too naive to realize that, she earned that much respect from him in the cemetery--but a reminder is all he can do for her right now, when he has nothing to turn his blade against.]