[He trails off as Ren takes his hand, struck by a sudden nameless fear as the ring is set in the center of his palm. He can only stare at it, then back up at Ren, jaw slack, eyes wide. The ground is steady beneath their feet, but it feels like his whole world is shaking.
How stupid. It's just a ring. It's not a ceremony, or a legally-binding document. It's just a piece of jewelry, like that silver bracelet back in Tokyo that he'd had his eye on. But this...
His throat seizes up as he stares down at it, choked with another one of those nameless emotions that swirl around his heart.]
You... you can't be serious, [he manages finally, the slightest hint of a by-now-familiar wildness edging into Akechi's eyes, the wildness that comes when he truly doesn't understand what to do with something, and his instinct is to simply run.] Ren, I...
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[He trails off as Ren takes his hand, struck by a sudden nameless fear as the ring is set in the center of his palm. He can only stare at it, then back up at Ren, jaw slack, eyes wide. The ground is steady beneath their feet, but it feels like his whole world is shaking.
How stupid. It's just a ring. It's not a ceremony, or a legally-binding document. It's just a piece of jewelry, like that silver bracelet back in Tokyo that he'd had his eye on. But this...
His throat seizes up as he stares down at it, choked with another one of those nameless emotions that swirl around his heart.]
You... you can't be serious, [he manages finally, the slightest hint of a by-now-familiar wildness edging into Akechi's eyes, the wildness that comes when he truly doesn't understand what to do with something, and his instinct is to simply run.] Ren, I...