[He watches it play out with a solemn, though... not particularly sad expression, gaze intent on Mizuki the whole time.
It's been a while since he's seen her - ironic, since she'd haunted his nightmares for so long. And yet, now that he's finally moved past all the guilt, she's gone and more or less disappeared from his dreams.
When the memory fades and Kurapika speaks up, he responds, voice quiet:]
Someone had to.
[She had no one else. She'd been spared the immediate deaths her family had suffered, and for what?
All it meant was that she was delivered right into the hands of a callous lot who were interested only in what they could hope to gain from her. Maybe that's why she only ever spoke to Ahito, her voice so quiet it could barely be heard...
He was the only one who cared enough to listen, to stay close enough to pick up every whispered word.]
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It's been a while since he's seen her - ironic, since she'd haunted his nightmares for so long. And yet, now that he's finally moved past all the guilt, she's gone and more or less disappeared from his dreams.
When the memory fades and Kurapika speaks up, he responds, voice quiet:]
Someone had to.
[She had no one else. She'd been spared the immediate deaths her family had suffered, and for what?
All it meant was that she was delivered right into the hands of a callous lot who were interested only in what they could hope to gain from her. Maybe that's why she only ever spoke to Ahito, her voice so quiet it could barely be heard...
He was the only one who cared enough to listen, to stay close enough to pick up every whispered word.]