[ In all honesty, Richard half-expected her to yell at him, like she's been doing all the way up until now. And to be fair, isn't that what the right reaction to this is? She'd been mad at him pulling other stupid stunts to try and protect her, is this fundamentally no different?
So when she takes his hand, he tenses slightly, surprise clearly painted on his face. ]
Ayaka...?
[ He's not sure what to say, exactly. It was so much easier to try and play a lot of it off like he was just being needlessly agggressive, and trying his best to distract from the point, but this...
Even if it wasn't the outcome he was planning for or expecting, it still resulted in her safety. And wasn't that what really mattered to him, deep down? With the amount of blood that's on Richard the Lionheart's hands, adding two people to that count doesn't even register as a drop in the bucket to him. For her, he'd bear the responsibility for it all over again. As many times as this place traps them in the loop, he'd do it again and again.
After all, if Ish won't honor the wish to protect her here, then he still has work to do, right? ]
There's nothing to apologize for. [ a broken record, but it bears repeating. ] I wasn't about to let her have the last laugh.
[ If anything, Siobhan Roy should be glad she only went out with a knife to the chest. ]
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So when she takes his hand, he tenses slightly, surprise clearly painted on his face. ]
Ayaka...?
[ He's not sure what to say, exactly. It was so much easier to try and play a lot of it off like he was just being needlessly agggressive, and trying his best to distract from the point, but this...
Even if it wasn't the outcome he was planning for or expecting, it still resulted in her safety. And wasn't that what really mattered to him, deep down? With the amount of blood that's on Richard the Lionheart's hands, adding two people to that count doesn't even register as a drop in the bucket to him. For her, he'd bear the responsibility for it all over again. As many times as this place traps them in the loop, he'd do it again and again.
After all, if Ish won't honor the wish to protect her here, then he still has work to do, right? ]
There's nothing to apologize for. [ a broken record, but it bears repeating. ] I wasn't about to let her have the last laugh.
[ If anything, Siobhan Roy should be glad she only went out with a knife to the chest. ]