[Ardyn hasn't pulled his own back yet. So Asch squeezes it, solidly, not the desperation of his own panic but something -
Something to pay that back, maybe. Give and take in reassurance that someone is there.]
You're still looking for a reason to get back up. You're asking and searching and every time -
Maybe you don't need one. Maybe you'll only find that answer by getting up and trying.
[Walk with your own feet, he'd said once. That's the only way to find any truth in the world.]
I don't know that answer. But I know myself a little better than I did, before, and I know you a little better. Enough to know that when someone shaves off your two thousand years of daemons and darkness, there's not really that much different.
[Another squeeze, and he folds his other hand over the first.]
The person I am at my worst... Is so scared of letting other people in, of being hurt again, that I try to destroy them before they even get close. And at the end of the day, you're not so different.
Have you even tried, since Izunia and Gilgamesh, to let anybody in? Or have you been just as scared as I am?
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[Ardyn hasn't pulled his own back yet. So Asch squeezes it, solidly, not the desperation of his own panic but something -
Something to pay that back, maybe. Give and take in reassurance that someone is there.]
You're still looking for a reason to get back up. You're asking and searching and every time -
Maybe you don't need one. Maybe you'll only find that answer by getting up and trying.
[Walk with your own feet, he'd said once. That's the only way to find any truth in the world.]
I don't know that answer. But I know myself a little better than I did, before, and I know you a little better. Enough to know that when someone shaves off your two thousand years of daemons and darkness, there's not really that much different.
[Another squeeze, and he folds his other hand over the first.]
The person I am at my worst... Is so scared of letting other people in, of being hurt again, that I try to destroy them before they even get close. And at the end of the day, you're not so different.
Have you even tried, since Izunia and Gilgamesh, to let anybody in? Or have you been just as scared as I am?