I'm not the sort of person you see me as, Nanami-san... If I'm amazing, it's because your kindness made me this way. I didn't even have anything to live for, before meeting you.
[It's something he never shared with her, he never really had a reason to. From within their shared darkness, he inches just a bit closer, as if the shadows of her form could comfort his, like an all-consuming hug.]
You know, I... was dying, before. I was diagnosed with a terminal disease, and I had nothing left. I wanted to surround myself with the very institution and talent I idolized because I had no other reason to live. I had no family, no friends.
Until I had you. You brought us all together, Nanami-san. I could never do something like that. Even our classmates... They only tolerated me, you know? But not you. You actually cared about me... I heard you tried to ask about me, after I was suspended...
But when I came back, I couldn't even protect you... My most precious friend.
[Does scum like that even deserve to be part of the equation? He would say no, but he also already knows Nanami's answer, if he were to ask her.]
cw: tacks a terminal illness mention on here just in case
[It's something he never shared with her, he never really had a reason to. From within their shared darkness, he inches just a bit closer, as if the shadows of her form could comfort his, like an all-consuming hug.]
You know, I... was dying, before. I was diagnosed with a terminal disease, and I had nothing left. I wanted to surround myself with the very institution and talent I idolized because I had no other reason to live. I had no family, no friends.
Until I had you. You brought us all together, Nanami-san. I could never do something like that. Even our classmates... They only tolerated me, you know? But not you. You actually cared about me... I heard you tried to ask about me, after I was suspended...
But when I came back, I couldn't even protect you... My most precious friend.
[Does scum like that even deserve to be part of the equation? He would say no, but he also already knows Nanami's answer, if he were to ask her.]