goatjo: ((teen!) sixty-eight)
五条悟 ([personal profile] goatjo) wrote in [personal profile] gorb 2025-09-10 05:52 pm (UTC)

[ it's the last bit that makes him freeze.

he told me you were dead.

he told me he killed you.


that's all it takes to bring it back -- the white noise of applause all around him, the weight of amanai's corpse in his arms, the detached certainty of connecting the fact that suguru isn't here with the knowledge that suguru would've never left her alone. ]


... yeah. [ and for once, his voice is small. ] When I found her, I --

I thought you were gone. And I -- [ he stumbles over it. not at the thought of confessing it to suguru, but at the idea that saying them aloud might turn that narrow brush into something real. ] ... it felt like nothing mattered anymore.

I thought about killing them. Everyone in that room. [ with a detached sort of unselfconsciousness, the way someone else might describe running an errand. ] But I couldn't even decide. It felt like they deserved to die, but it didn't feel like them dying would fix anything, and --

None of it meant anything if it meant I was stuck in a world without you in it, y'know?

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