[ She shrugs a little, pressing her hands together, palm to palm. ]
Your sister's an adult, Gawain. And Kadoc is...
[ Someone who she had been told by multiple people--including Mash, whom she trusts above everyone else--is kind. Someone who was technically her senior, even if none of that had really worked out, in the end. Someone she saw echoes of herself in, if she really wanted to be honest.
And also, someone she failed to save. ]
...I thought he was dead. I saw that creepy priest stab him.
[ Maybe that's not a big deal to a knight, well-versed in war, but for Ritsuka--Roman had simply vanished. They'd left behind every Lostbelt before it faded, and knowing those people no longer existed is very different from watching a man crumple from a literal stab in the back right in front of you. ]
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[ She shrugs a little, pressing her hands together, palm to palm. ]
Your sister's an adult, Gawain. And Kadoc is...
[ Someone who she had been told by multiple people--including Mash, whom she trusts above everyone else--is kind. Someone who was technically her senior, even if none of that had really worked out, in the end. Someone she saw echoes of herself in, if she really wanted to be honest.
And also, someone she failed to save. ]
...I thought he was dead. I saw that creepy priest stab him.
[ Maybe that's not a big deal to a knight, well-versed in war, but for Ritsuka--Roman had simply vanished. They'd left behind every Lostbelt before it faded, and knowing those people no longer existed is very different from watching a man crumple from a literal stab in the back right in front of you. ]