[Finally, Dazai closes the distance. He kneels down next to Fauna. He doesn't touch her - not yet. But he's directly next to her now.]
There's a lot of 'if then's and 'but I' in this multiverse. You can do something here. You're still saving people. It's just a different group of people. We still have the same ideal: we must do good. And we are.
I'd also like to disagree with you there. Given, I don't know everything about you yet. But I can guarantee you I've thought the same again and again and that's why no one knows anything I don't feel like they have to know. It's a lot easier that way.
[A gentle smile crosses his face.]
But you don't like things easy, do you? The Fauna I know is a fighter. If she's given an easy route, she's insulted. She takes the harder route because she knows she can take it, she wants to be the one to accomplish it to help others, and she thinks nothing of it at the end because it's simply what her heart has told her to do. After all. Martyr thoughts come easy. Dying is, in fact, quite easy, and I know a number of methods. Living is harder. And I'd hate to let a challenge like this be her - your - undoing.
The Armed Detective Agency is full of people who share that fear. Atsushi's told me thoughts like this before, Akutagawa wears them on his sleeve - sometimes quite literally, and there's you and I. We're all monsters, if we think that way. But we're working towards a purpose. We're working towards the light. And I think it'd be remarkably difficult for any of us to give up on each other now.
From what I know of all of us, together, you'd have a harder time getting rid of us than keeping a hold.
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There's a lot of 'if then's and 'but I' in this multiverse. You can do something here. You're still saving people. It's just a different group of people. We still have the same ideal: we must do good. And we are.
I'd also like to disagree with you there. Given, I don't know everything about you yet. But I can guarantee you I've thought the same again and again and that's why no one knows anything I don't feel like they have to know. It's a lot easier that way.
[A gentle smile crosses his face.]
But you don't like things easy, do you? The Fauna I know is a fighter. If she's given an easy route, she's insulted. She takes the harder route because she knows she can take it, she wants to be the one to accomplish it to help others, and she thinks nothing of it at the end because it's simply what her heart has told her to do. After all. Martyr thoughts come easy. Dying is, in fact, quite easy, and I know a number of methods. Living is harder. And I'd hate to let a challenge like this be her - your - undoing.
The Armed Detective Agency is full of people who share that fear. Atsushi's told me thoughts like this before, Akutagawa wears them on his sleeve - sometimes quite literally, and there's you and I. We're all monsters, if we think that way. But we're working towards a purpose. We're working towards the light. And I think it'd be remarkably difficult for any of us to give up on each other now.
From what I know of all of us, together, you'd have a harder time getting rid of us than keeping a hold.