[ And that's the first time they've heard anyone say it with such confidence and self-assuredness - their eyes go wide as they look back up to him, genuinely caught off guard. ]
Really...?
[ For a moment, they forget themself, and they end up sounding a bit more hopeful than they intended. One gets the sense they've, for the most part, genuinely believed what the Zenith has to say until this point. It's complicated... going off their personal experiences thus far alone, with that frantic dream and all, they feel like the world really could be gone. On the one hand, the world being destroyed would mean that they've escaped having their hand forced into doing crueler and crueler deeds just in the nick of time. Guilty as they feel about it, it'd be a secret relief, buried and hidden in the darkest corners of their heart.
On the other hand... what would be the point of that, if they lost everything else in the process? No matter what they end up believing, the idea that Maka and everyone could ben so easily removed from existence, while they had miraculously survived, would be too much to bear. Of course they feel a shimmer of hope, hearing that it might not be true. Even if that would mean returning to— ]
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Really...?
[ For a moment, they forget themself, and they end up sounding a bit more hopeful than they intended. One gets the sense they've, for the most part, genuinely believed what the Zenith has to say until this point. It's complicated... going off their personal experiences thus far alone, with that frantic dream and all, they feel like the world really could be gone. On the one hand, the world being destroyed would mean that they've escaped having their hand forced into doing crueler and crueler deeds just in the nick of time. Guilty as they feel about it, it'd be a secret relief, buried and hidden in the darkest corners of their heart.
On the other hand... what would be the point of that, if they lost everything else in the process? No matter what they end up believing, the idea that Maka and everyone could ben so easily removed from existence, while they had miraculously survived, would be too much to bear. Of course they feel a shimmer of hope, hearing that it might not be true. Even if that would mean returning to— ]
... How do you know that?