[His actions freeze at that, eyes going wide and a couple of tears slipping out on their own as a result.
Saving someone's life?
That's right. He did save Asch's life... But at what cost? Asch having to kill his own mother, even though it was just a fake world? Having to shatter that perfect peace that he achieved?
But still. Asch isn't bringing up the fact that Luke took away his happiness again, something that Luke thought of himself all the time. Or that it was his fault in the first place. In his own strange way, he's... thanking him?]
I...
[He ducks his head, his attention on the pendant wrapped up in his nightshirt, though he hastily wipes his cheek against his shoulder after realizing he let himself cry, if only a little.]
I am pretty stupid, huh? I just... [I just wish it wasn't me who had to do it. I wish there was another way. I wish I could've been the one do it, and yet I know I couldn't have.] That world of yours was... [It was the one thing I took away from you in the past and took away from you again.]
Why did it have to pick out something like that? [If it were someone like Van, it might've been easier. But their mother...]
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Saving someone's life?
That's right. He did save Asch's life... But at what cost? Asch having to kill his own mother, even though it was just a fake world? Having to shatter that perfect peace that he achieved?
But still. Asch isn't bringing up the fact that Luke took away his happiness again, something that Luke thought of himself all the time. Or that it was his fault in the first place. In his own strange way, he's... thanking him?]
I...
[He ducks his head, his attention on the pendant wrapped up in his nightshirt, though he hastily wipes his cheek against his shoulder after realizing he let himself cry, if only a little.]
I am pretty stupid, huh? I just... [I just wish it wasn't me who had to do it. I wish there was another way. I wish I could've been the one do it, and yet I know I couldn't have.] That world of yours was... [It was the one thing I took away from you in the past and took away from you again.]
Why did it have to pick out something like that? [If it were someone like Van, it might've been easier. But their mother...]