[He gave another nod, firmer this time in his agreement.]
... Yeah.
[His voice came out calmer, the knee-jerk reaction of panic subsiding slightly now that he could pick up that knowledge and hold it. If he could take a long look at it, get a feel for it, it'd undoubtedly still be shit but at least it'd be shit that he could anticipate might happen. A forced bout of nothing that he'd have to play catch-up after, like Noya was doing now. Thinking about going back to a time where he knew absolutely nothing about what was going on with his friend or anything else just made him feel heavy.]
Emi was quiet a moment before he spoke up again with quiet admissions.]
There's just a cell waiting for me. [And if it happened that he didn't get sent right back to prison, it was still a lot of nothing. It wasn't a home, even outside prison. There was nothing to go back to on his own. There'd only been one reason he hadn't just ditched the whole lot and started over somewhere else, and that reason was here in Koriko.]
All this... this is all I've got. [And it was more than Emi would have ever expected, so it was not a sad fact at all.] It's better to know what might happen so... Thanks. For telling me.
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... Yeah.
[His voice came out calmer, the knee-jerk reaction of panic subsiding slightly now that he could pick up that knowledge and hold it. If he could take a long look at it, get a feel for it, it'd undoubtedly still be shit but at least it'd be shit that he could anticipate might happen. A forced bout of nothing that he'd have to play catch-up after, like Noya was doing now. Thinking about going back to a time where he knew absolutely nothing about what was going on with his friend or anything else just made him feel heavy.]
Emi was quiet a moment before he spoke up again with quiet admissions.]
There's just a cell waiting for me. [And if it happened that he didn't get sent right back to prison, it was still a lot of nothing. It wasn't a home, even outside prison. There was nothing to go back to on his own. There'd only been one reason he hadn't just ditched the whole lot and started over somewhere else, and that reason was here in Koriko.]
All this... this is all I've got. [And it was more than Emi would have ever expected, so it was not a sad fact at all.] It's better to know what might happen so... Thanks. For telling me.