[She wouldn't care if he did cry. It helped sometimes to let all that out. She knew, she'd cried for days after Minako had vanished, but he wasn't her.
His question hits her harder than he probably knew. It was something she'd thought about the minute she'd seen the app notification, too. He was going back into oblivion, to where the dead went. Not home, not really. At least, that was what she'd initially thought. It'd taken time, and she'd been trying to come up with a preemptive answer for this very question since then. Planning for it and being asked it, thought, was a bit like taking that first hit in a boxing match.
She flounders for words, but not letting her hold on him break one bit, as if she could will away his sadness with touches. When she does speak, it's in a low voice, closer to his ear.]
You still can. He's still in the Nexus Code. Tadashi-san has no magical talent, and that means he'll be there. Eventually, we'll find a way to reach that place...and then we can take people out. Just like him.
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His question hits her harder than he probably knew. It was something she'd thought about the minute she'd seen the app notification, too. He was going back into oblivion, to where the dead went. Not home, not really. At least, that was what she'd initially thought. It'd taken time, and she'd been trying to come up with a preemptive answer for this very question since then. Planning for it and being asked it, thought, was a bit like taking that first hit in a boxing match.
She flounders for words, but not letting her hold on him break one bit, as if she could will away his sadness with touches. When she does speak, it's in a low voice, closer to his ear.]
You still can. He's still in the Nexus Code. Tadashi-san has no magical talent, and that means he'll be there. Eventually, we'll find a way to reach that place...and then we can take people out. Just like him.