crau3 pc: kazuki

[squirt]

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[squirt]

Some people are better at remembering that everyone will come back than others.

[ he's not one of those people. then, a little bitterly, ]

...It shouldn't have been them.

[teenrebellion]

Even if they come back, it doesn't erase what happens to them to get to the other side. I'm with you on that.

...No. But we didn't have a solid answer for who it should have been, either.

[squirt]

We had evidence. We had... options. It isn't better than Siffrin, but—

[ he gets worked enough that he coughs, still recovering. it takes a couple seconds for him to cool off. ]

I don't know. I don't know what the right thing to do was.

[teenrebellion]

...Hey, don't push yourself too much. You've still got to heal, man.

[ just watching him worriedly for a moment. ]

I think the point here is that there kind of isn't a right thing to do at all. Every option we have is awful.

[squirt]

[ he's wound up so tight that it's clear he's forgotten he's injured until kazuki reminds him, and he forces himself to ease how taut his shoulders are. ]

...Yeah. [ no good choices. ] We have to make a choice to live with, but when none of them are good...

[ they've both lived through the same murder experiences overall, so he admits, ]

I don't want as many regrets as last time.

[teenrebellion]

So we keep doing our best to minimize them. Which I guess kind of sucks this week, but there's still a month left. Still time to try and do things differently, somehow.