If this is his arm, I swear...[it's grumbled a little, but they're walking through the forest and sora comes to a slope. below them is the bear cave, but he starts looking around near the top, too, just in case.]
Can I ask you what he did tell you? Or is it too personal, you think?
...I don't know if I should repeat everything he said, but...
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He said that he fought to protect somebody's memory. I'm not sure if he meant someone specific, or if he was just talking about somebody in general, but... I think it's worth keeping in mind, if anyone thinks he was... trying to cover for someone.
...[he hums to himself.] At the trial he said he didn't have anyone to protect that was here. So that's the difference, right?
It's...weird. I think we might've gotten more out of him if we talked to him a different way, but we didn't have time for that. He sounded like he was used to people giving up on him. He's never been great about being direct and I don't think he ever wanted to.
"...sometimes I can't help it. But the way I am... I know I gotta be this way. Even if I can't say what the reason is. I guess, in some way, I'm doing all this to feel real too."
...I still don't know if that was real or if it was something he said to get me to back off, but if it's true? I don't know if he knew how to handle what was happening here.
...we shouldn't have gotten so stuck on how suspicious his refusal to cooperate was. But - at the same time... I wish he'd just cooperated.
[she frowns, but spots a patch of earth that looks like it's been disturbed recently... time to dig.]
I wish we could have done something more for him. He told me this was something I could do... [finding the shit he buried, that is] ...but it doesn't feel like enough.
Me too. If he'd been a little easier to work with, maybe people wouldn't have freaked out so much and lost sight of what we were doing.
[...he'll just crouch nearby and let yona dig, curious what's out there.]
I wish we could have, too, but I think even taking care of his own wishes is enough for him. It means people are listening to him. [hm.] He asked me to take care of some stuff after he was gone, too.
Hmm... I guess I'll hold onto it until she says she wants it. Then I can give it back to her, but she doesn't have to deal with it if she doesn't want to.
That's probably all we can do. I don't know why Kano wanted us to find it, but...Izumo seemed to take his death pretty hard. Maybe he thought it would help her to have it back.
Yeah...[he frowns.] I'm going to ask one of the leaders if there's any way we can send messages or something to the people who've been removed. They can't be totally gone...can they?
You? [he doesn't mean to sound so baffled by it, but that's not something he hears every day either.] You are just you. But...I dunno. Sometimes people like that have memories from who they were before.
Maybe there are still memories from the people who've been removed floating around here.
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Can I ask you what he did tell you? Or is it too personal, you think?
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[...]
He said that he fought to protect somebody's memory. I'm not sure if he meant someone specific, or if he was just talking about somebody in general, but... I think it's worth keeping in mind, if anyone thinks he was... trying to cover for someone.
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It's...weird. I think we might've gotten more out of him if we talked to him a different way, but we didn't have time for that. He sounded like he was used to people giving up on him. He's never been great about being direct and I don't think he ever wanted to.
"...sometimes I can't help it. But the way I am... I know I gotta be this way. Even if I can't say what the reason is. I guess, in some way, I'm doing all this to feel real too."
...I still don't know if that was real or if it was something he said to get me to back off, but if it's true? I don't know if he knew how to handle what was happening here.
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[she frowns, but spots a patch of earth that looks like it's been disturbed recently... time to dig.]
I wish we could have done something more for him. He told me this was something I could do... [finding the shit he buried, that is] ...but it doesn't feel like enough.
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[...he'll just crouch nearby and let yona dig, curious what's out there.]
I wish we could have, too, but I think even taking care of his own wishes is enough for him. It means people are listening to him. [hm.] He asked me to take care of some stuff after he was gone, too.
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...it's good. That he felt like he could ask us that, I guess. [...] It just feels sad that we have to do it because he's gone.
[eventually, she gets to... a plastic container! which she tugs out of the hole.]
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[he blinks in surprise.] Think that's it?
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[she eases the lid off of it!
izumo's kimono is in there. it's folded up nicely.]
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[KANO WHY.]
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Are people not totally gone when they die where you come from, Sora?
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Not always, no. [britt kh3 is fucking wild.] Sometimes, if their heart is really strong, they can still exist. Sometimes they can even come back.
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Unless you get reincarnated, I guess, but that sort of thing is really, really rare.
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[...she brings a hand up and brushes some of her hair behind her ear.]
...supposedly I'm someone's reincarnation, but I don't feel any different from anyone else. I'm just me, you know?
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Maybe there are still memories from the people who've been removed floating around here.
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