How the fuck is that not fair? How the fuck is that not fair, Alex? Get off the cross for five seconds and fucking listen to me right now.
Somebody whose only excuse for killing another person is to teach them a lesson just needed a goddamn excuse. You hit him? Hot shit. You know how many people every day in every world get hit for stupid reasons and don't commit murder?
Take this on your soul and I'll never fucking forgive you, Alex, I swear to you. You carry enough, you—
[—and he's yelling, he realizes. Fury bubbling under his skin. His voice goes flat.]
Killing someone, [he says, quietly,] doesn't just happen. It's a thing that's done. An action that's taken. Feel guilty about Ogata killing you and he's basically killed you twice.
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Somebody whose only excuse for killing another person is to teach them a lesson just needed a goddamn excuse. You hit him? Hot shit. You know how many people every day in every world get hit for stupid reasons and don't commit murder?
Take this on your soul and I'll never fucking forgive you, Alex, I swear to you. You carry enough, you—
[—and he's yelling, he realizes. Fury bubbling under his skin. His voice goes flat.]
Killing someone, [he says, quietly,] doesn't just happen. It's a thing that's done. An action that's taken. Feel guilty about Ogata killing you and he's basically killed you twice.
Your choice, though.