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𝚐𝚘𝚛𝚘 𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚒 ([personal profile] amurderofcrow) wrote in [community profile] folkmeme 2024-05-05 03:47 am (UTC)

[There it is. That revolting sliver of commonality between them.

Akechi, to his credit - or maybe, to his shame - doesn't have as emotional a reaction as Ryuji does. His lashes do not flutter as he's fighting back tears, nor does he struggle to catch his breath against the furious beating of his heart. Instead, he simply sits there in the steaming pool and listens, arms crossed over his bare chest, as if he's right back in school, listening to a lecture he already knows every word to.

But even as Ryuji glances away, his eyes never once slide away from the other teen's face. Akechi faces him head on, the entire time he speaks, connecting the only way that he knows how.

By hating Ryuji's father too.

At least his mother lives, as haunting an existence as that must be. At least this story didn't end with Ryuji putting her in the ground too. It isn't a happy ending, but it isn't an ending either. There's still time.]


Good. [Finally, Akechi speaks up.] May he never darken her doorway again. Scum of the earth. Violent men with the audacity to bring unwanted children into the world and then punish them for trying to live.

[They all deserve to suffer. For every single one of them, death would be far too easy a sentence.]

Your mother - you have nothing to fear, Sakamoto. She's resilient. She's faced the cruelness of powerful men and survived before. You not being there to protect her is not a death sentence. She will be fine.

[It may be the nicest thing Akechi's ever spoken aloud and meant.]

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