No. As soon as those words leave his mouth, echo softly through the empty, humid bathhouse, a smile bursts to life across Maruki's face. ]
You know, it's funny...
[ His changed heart may now be open to all the pain he'd buried deep for so long, but it's open to all the joy he denied himself, too. He beams at Akechi and laughs, soft but radiant, appreciative. ]
You wanted to kill me then, too. Just now, you sounded exactly like him.
Is that so? That's one way he isn't a disappointment, I suppose.
[ Because in every other way that Akechi has been. Teaming up, letting Maruki live, the unknown fate of Shido-
Maruki should have a died. A change of heart is a fate too miserable for someone worthy of more. Maybe Akechi has plans to end him later. Maybe Maruki will take an easy out for himself.
But that's his life. His failures. The outcome is irrelevant. He'll suffer, he'll survive, he'll live, he'll die.
It all led to his return and-
Akechi's not unhappy to be sharing this space with this particular man again.
And so they fall back into familiar silence, Akechi lowering the temperature of the water slightly. A little. A few degrees to extend this time for himself, not Maruki. ]
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GOD WE CAN WRAP UP...... HELL ON EARTH
Oh, Akechi couldn't be more wrong.
No. As soon as those words leave his mouth, echo softly through the empty, humid bathhouse, a smile bursts to life across Maruki's face. ]
You know, it's funny...
[ His changed heart may now be open to all the pain he'd buried deep for so long, but it's open to all the joy he denied himself, too. He beams at Akechi and laughs, soft but radiant, appreciative. ]
You wanted to kill me then, too. Just now, you sounded exactly like him.
TERRIBLE......cw: suicide
[ Because in every other way that Akechi has been. Teaming up, letting Maruki live, the unknown fate of Shido-
Maruki should have a died. A change of heart is a fate too miserable for someone worthy of more. Maybe Akechi has plans to end him later. Maybe Maruki will take an easy out for himself.
But that's his life. His failures. The outcome is irrelevant. He'll suffer, he'll survive, he'll live, he'll die.
It all led to his return and-
Akechi's not unhappy to be sharing this space with this particular man again.
And so they fall back into familiar silence, Akechi lowering the temperature of the water slightly. A little. A few degrees to extend this time for himself, not Maruki. ]