[ Hurt feelings aren't what he meant. The human souls that are turned into akuma are tortured to the point where they only desire to lash out and kill. Even with feelings there is a difference between bruised egos and hard truth versus what will traumatize and torture. Vengeful spirits that lash out, even if originally it was only for the love and loneliness they bore. They're what he's most familiar with; beyond akuma even, like the ghost that haunted the previous headquarters. And has empathy for, but strictly and without letting them cross that line. He is naive, but not that naive.
But that is an unnecessarily contrary and violent thing to bring up, and would only make him have to explain something that has no bearing here. Probably.
So he just leans forward and speaks gently. ]
Many people suffer and might lash out because of that suffering. Whether they're alive or not when they do, it doesn't mean the hurt they cause is right or just simply because they wish it.
[ It's blunt, but kind. ]
Many times, I think, they don't even truly want to cause harm, but only want someone else to know they're hurting. In death especially, when they have so many regrets about what might have happened—or what didn't.
Suffering only causes more suffering. That's all I mean. [ Hers too, is what he actually means. Because back there, what he saw in her expression, the way she faltered before he was moved to pick her up—that was someone resigning themselves to suffer.
"It isn't like...I'm going to get married or ever find someone to..."
It had been her expression, saying something like that. ]
So I think that's important, too. But that people should be protected as well. [ And if it wasn't obvious— ]
Please don't be mad, mi—[ ... ]—Nike. I would like to put those spirits to rest as well, so that no one else might be made to feel uneasy. [ Words carefully chosen. If he were someone bolder, he might have touched her knee, but instead he just leans forward in the dark in his earnestness. "This is important" reinforcing his entire posture. ]
But not when doing so will only bring suffering as well. There has to be a better way.
[ A war based on sacrifice is meaningless, he once said after all. Even if he is somewhat more tempered now. ]
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But that is an unnecessarily contrary and violent thing to bring up, and would only make him have to explain something that has no bearing here. Probably.
So he just leans forward and speaks gently. ]
Many people suffer and might lash out because of that suffering. Whether they're alive or not when they do, it doesn't mean the hurt they cause is right or just simply because they wish it.
[ It's blunt, but kind. ]
Many times, I think, they don't even truly want to cause harm, but only want someone else to know they're hurting. In death especially, when they have so many regrets about what might have happened—or what didn't.
Suffering only causes more suffering. That's all I mean. [ Hers too, is what he actually means. Because back there, what he saw in her expression, the way she faltered before he was moved to pick her up—that was someone resigning themselves to suffer.
"It isn't like...I'm going to get married or ever find someone to..."
It had been her expression, saying something like that. ]
So I think that's important, too. But that people should be protected as well. [ And if it wasn't obvious— ]
Please don't be mad, mi—[ ... ]—Nike. I would like to put those spirits to rest as well, so that no one else might be made to feel uneasy. [ Words carefully chosen. If he were someone bolder, he might have touched her knee, but instead he just leans forward in the dark in his earnestness. "This is important" reinforcing his entire posture. ]
But not when doing so will only bring suffering as well. There has to be a better way.
[ A war based on sacrifice is meaningless, he once said after all. Even if he is somewhat more tempered now. ]