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[regretnooothing]

[Somewhere near the middle of camp there is a man sitting & chained down behind a desk in a familiar manner with a sign]

REVERSE ADVICE STAND
Please give this bad decision dinosaur poor soul your aid

I don't really want it...

Comments

[oooden]

[ no ]

[oooden]

It's like I've told you both -- you're partners. You help each other out but just because you are partners, does not mean you have to limit yourself to each other. You have to stop doing everything alone and Ankh has to stop not saying what he really means. It's a pain to have to decipher everything, isn't it?

Though the fact that you had an argument like this does give me a bit of faith. It means you're both opening up a bit to each other which will provide a better relationship between you two. You can't have any type of connection with a person and have all positives -- or I guess, negatives in your case? I don't know, you two are kind of... different.

Either way, you have to let other people help you and he has to allow himself to help you. It's the only way it's going to work.

[regretnooothing]

[Silence, letting it all sink in]

I know all of that. I know that it would be easier, probably safer if I did. I told him this myself before he got upset. I just can't allow myself to do it. So, I do understand, I really do! It's just not something I can just do. Yet.

[oooden]

Why not?

[regretnooothing]

Even if I did know how to get rid of them, I need to take care of Maki and the other Greeed's before I do that. Until then I need to just deal with it and fight it as long as possible.

[oooden]

It kind of pisses me off when you put it like that, Hino.

[regretnooothing]

That's what pissed him off too, actually.

[oooden]

So answer me this, what do you think Gotou's fighting for?

[regretnooothing]

. . .

[Never even thought about it before]

[oooden]

[ a sigh ]

Don't call yourself any sort of hero if you can't respect the heroes fighting alongside you, Hino. They have reason to fight too, you're not doing this alone.

[regretnooothing]

I know you do. I've never doubted that, but because I've never had to doubt it, I've never asked him. You were different.

[oooden]

Have you ever thought he wants to help you?

[regretnooothing]

I know he does. We've been talking already about these things. I'm admittedly wary about letting him help me, but I am... with what little he can do, anyway.

[oooden]

[ urge to throttle ]

"What little he can do"?

[regretnooothing]

I have to think realistically, Date-san. He's done so much for me already but nothing has changed.

I have to be the one to do this.

[oooden]

[ steps forward and reaches hands out to smush your cheeks as he stares straight at you ]

You.

Are not alone.

Stop doing everything by yourself.