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[hasteful]

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[hasteful]

I don’t really want to call it honorable.

[buzen thinks a lot of people have been really sweet about it, but his reasons are a little more extreme than honor]

But I also don’t expect anyone to do what we did… It’s way more normal and human to want to live at any cost, and protecting your team is your best bet of that.

[kunoichi]

[ she nods ]

Alright then. We won't call it that.

...Mmm. I agree. But human hearts are fickle, too. You can never really know what a person is or isn't thinking.

[hasteful]

Mm...

[thoughtfully, but with a frown]

That's true. But we all want to live again, right? That's what we're in these teams and trying to get points for. I think there are still some pretty reliable things to expect... like people who'll do whatever it takes to survive.

[kunoichi]

[ ... ]

Rin didn't fight back, though.

[hasteful]

Sometimes fleeing is survival.

... well, at least from what I've seen.

[but he's quite literally built for war, so it's not something that's intuitive to him either]

[kunoichi]

That's true.

You seem like someone who would stand their ground and fight, though.

[ being a sword aside, ]

[hasteful]

I would. I can't let anyone break me—if they do, then that'd break Matsu too.

[matsui is so fucking close to the edge at all times and buzen knows this]

So it's the least I can do for him... to try to stay at his side for as long as I can.

[kunoichi]

[ she nods ]

It's good you have each other. Do your best, okay?

—Well, not that you aren't.

[hasteful]

It's okay. We both know that we have to try to do even better, to make up for everything.

[buzen isn't as catholic as matsui but the remnants of it show up sometimes like this,]