[There's an odd feeling in his chest as she speaks, an unfamiliar tightness like someone's squeezing a vice around it. It's the same feeling as when Ren tells him he likes spending time with him, the same feeling as when Ann said she wanted to be friends in spite of it all. In spite of everything he'd done, to Japan and to them personally.
He still doesn't know what to call that feeling, afraid to embrace it for fear that it'll be taken away as quickly and easily as it was granted. He swallows hard and looks to the chess board, watches her move her pawn forward.]
You're leaving yourself quite open, [he observes finally. Instead of taking the obvious move of seizing her pawn, he lets it go for now, sliding his bishop further across the board to ward her knight away.] In return, I'll simply say this: I have no intention of harming Ren, or any of the rest of your band of friends. No matter what... opportunities we have here, I won't let them distract me from finding a way to return home and destroy Maruki and his twisted reality.
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[There's an odd feeling in his chest as she speaks, an unfamiliar tightness like someone's squeezing a vice around it. It's the same feeling as when Ren tells him he likes spending time with him, the same feeling as when Ann said she wanted to be friends in spite of it all. In spite of everything he'd done, to Japan and to them personally.
He still doesn't know what to call that feeling, afraid to embrace it for fear that it'll be taken away as quickly and easily as it was granted. He swallows hard and looks to the chess board, watches her move her pawn forward.]
You're leaving yourself quite open, [he observes finally. Instead of taking the obvious move of seizing her pawn, he lets it go for now, sliding his bishop further across the board to ward her knight away.] In return, I'll simply say this: I have no intention of harming Ren, or any of the rest of your band of friends. No matter what... opportunities we have here, I won't let them distract me from finding a way to return home and destroy Maruki and his twisted reality.