I always put myself in destructive situations [W5, Friday]

[hydrokinetics]

[It took time. Everything took time as it always did. It took time for them to all calm down, it took time to heal physical wounds, it took time to properly remove the evidence of obscene crimes...but in the evening they were able to gather in one place away from everyone else. It hadn't been easy coordinating everything, but it was necessary.

And so here they were. All seven of them.]

...I don't really know where to start. [His voice is tight, but determined.] But we need everybody on the same page. Who wants to go first?

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[insincerely]

[He's... pretty sure he has an idea of what Percy's talking about.]

... I asked her if she would kill me. She couldn't say no.

[He shrugs.]

Then again, even if she did, I would've thought she was lying anyway. Either way, her answer was... well, she implied that if it came down to it, she would rather have me kill her.

[But she still didn't say no.]

[hydrokinetics]

...I really, really hope it doesn't come to that, dude. Why would you even ask her though?

[insincerely]

[He shrugs, which is a sign that he was running on Shinnosuke-logic.]

It was during one of those moments when she was getting mushy on me, so I needed to put an end to that.

[hydrokinetics]

Would it kill you to maybe be a little nicer to her?

[...I mean after all of this, yeah, it might.]

[insincerely]

Nothing good would've come out of getting attached, both ways.

[...]

Anyway, I've stopped doing that, since she was stupidly stubborn and a week later I ended up telling her that I'd let her walk beside me. [...] Which, from the looks of things, might've been a mistake.

[hydrokinetics]

Don't think of it as a mistake yet. She's still a good person even if she might be doing things for the wrong reasons. That's what we have to remember.

[insincerely]

... Yeah. I know.

[He thinks of Kiri, who literally stabbed him in the back and then started crying, and how he forgave her even in that moment.]

[hydrokinetics]

...it's going to be fine, Shinnosuke. We're going for my experience here, remember? [It's light, but it's a reminder. He's not going to let anything bad happen to Shinnosuke if he can help it.]

[insincerely]

[That actually gets a smile out of him (and he hates that it does).]

... It'd be nice if that could happen.

[hydrokinetics]

[Gods. Thanks, Shinnosuke...]

We're going to do our best to make it happen. That's guaranteed.