[ ...Just like that, it's all gone. It's funny, how jarring that is, like how it first fully emerged, but it is also simultaneously a relief. The image of that young white-haired male holding Shinjiro as he lays there, bleeding, is forever ingrained in his mind. But when he blinks, he still sees the young man standing there before him...alive.
Safe.
But, there is darkness enshrined in that heart of his. Those eyes steeped in a doubtless deluge of sorrow and regret.
He says he does not know. Jing Yuan thinks Shinji understands it full well enough, but his heart wavers all the same in his answer. For a moment, his gaze is gentle; not filled with pity, but a brief understanding, of a desire to not wish to speak an answer straightforwardly when there is deep turmoil in one's heart.
So, in the face of everything, Jing Yuan makes a declaration from his heart, no matter what he has been witness to. ]
...I am glad that it wasn't final.
That you are still here. That we have had the opportunity to meet. That what happened ended up not going as it 'was supposed to be' in ensuring your existence had truly came to an end at that time.
[ Jing Yuan speaks those words, even if Shinjiro feels pain in living.
But, he deserves a second chance. He deserves to live. To face what it means to keep walking forward. And as bold as it is, he thinks he deserves to grasp happiness in those hands of his, and never let it go, no matter how difficult or hardly deserving the idea may seem to him.
So he steps forward again. ]
I know they would have wished for you to have had a second chance.
As daunting as it is, I believe that there is still an opportunity for you to grasp it. And that you should, with all your might — even amidst the uncertainty, even with all of those regrets. Even with all of that has come to pass.
You must also understand...this isn't like before. You do not have to face it all alone. Not anymore.
If you believe otherwise at this time, I will not be surprised; altering one's path is not easy, and you will carry those regrets for far longer than you ever imagined, perhaps.
Still, I will do everything in my power to convince you to at least take that first step. To reach for that new future, uncertain as it is.
And beyond what has been shown in that vision. So, how about it?
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Safe.
But, there is darkness enshrined in that heart of his. Those eyes steeped in a doubtless deluge of sorrow and regret.
He says he does not know. Jing Yuan thinks Shinji understands it full well enough, but his heart wavers all the same in his answer. For a moment, his gaze is gentle; not filled with pity, but a brief understanding, of a desire to not wish to speak an answer straightforwardly when there is deep turmoil in one's heart.
So, in the face of everything, Jing Yuan makes a declaration from his heart, no matter what he has been witness to. ]
...I am glad that it wasn't final.
That you are still here. That we have had the opportunity to meet. That what happened ended up not going as it 'was supposed to be' in ensuring your existence had truly came to an end at that time.
[ Jing Yuan speaks those words, even if Shinjiro feels pain in living.
But, he deserves a second chance. He deserves to live. To face what it means to keep walking forward. And as bold as it is, he thinks he deserves to grasp happiness in those hands of his, and never let it go, no matter how difficult or hardly deserving the idea may seem to him.
So he steps forward again. ]
I know they would have wished for you to have had a second chance.
As daunting as it is, I believe that there is still an opportunity for you to grasp it. And that you should, with all your might — even amidst the uncertainty, even with all of those regrets. Even with all of that has come to pass.
You must also understand...this isn't like before. You do not have to face it all alone. Not anymore.
If you believe otherwise at this time, I will not be surprised; altering one's path is not easy, and you will carry those regrets for far longer than you ever imagined, perhaps.
Still, I will do everything in my power to convince you to at least take that first step. To reach for that new future, uncertain as it is.
And beyond what has been shown in that vision. So, how about it?
[ Jing Yuan will reach a hand out to Shinjiro. ]