[They can get matching ones and profess their love to the world like total saps.
Ah, yeah... That would be similar to how his dad treated him, wouldn't it. Maybe that's why he expects such reprisals and even does things to incite them. Got too used to that being the only display of "affection" from the person who claimed to care for him.
If she had cried, he'd have chopped up the statue in an instant, hard work or not. Tears are unacceptable - that's how he knows he's crossed a line.]
Yeah, I just wish I didn't get so gung ho that I forget myself. I keep hurting you because of it...
[He notes the softness in her words, which only amplifies his guilt for having overstepped yet again. But unlike before, he's going to try not to dwell on it. Learn and move on. That's what she wants, right?]
Y-Yeah... [He, too, remembers all the crazy shit he did both for her and to her. Hell, he's still doing it to this day. It's barely been a blip in time during in long life since that fateful day, so her words still ring within him, buoying him whenever he gets down.]
For the future. [Taking her by the hands, he holds on tight to her.] You don't know how close I was to giving up, Hiyori... A thousand years of getting nowhere, of always losing my partners, of always being alone... I was beginning to lose the will to try.
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Ah, yeah... That would be similar to how his dad treated him, wouldn't it. Maybe that's why he expects such reprisals and even does things to incite them. Got too used to that being the only display of "affection" from the person who claimed to care for him.
If she had cried, he'd have chopped up the statue in an instant, hard work or not. Tears are unacceptable - that's how he knows he's crossed a line.]
Yeah, I just wish I didn't get so gung ho that I forget myself. I keep hurting you because of it...
[He notes the softness in her words, which only amplifies his guilt for having overstepped yet again. But unlike before, he's going to try not to dwell on it. Learn and move on. That's what she wants, right?]
Y-Yeah... [He, too, remembers all the crazy shit he did both for her and to her. Hell, he's still doing it to this day. It's barely been a blip in time during in long life since that fateful day, so her words still ring within him, buoying him whenever he gets down.]
For the future. [Taking her by the hands, he holds on tight to her.] You don't know how close I was to giving up, Hiyori... A thousand years of getting nowhere, of always losing my partners, of always being alone... I was beginning to lose the will to try.