It doesn't, not truly. But to Akira... it feels like it does. His heart must be beating, his breaths must be flowing- but he's too stunned to take stock of it all.
His world is narrowed to two things only: the pressure of a hand, and a single phrase.
"I believe you."
"I believe you."
"I believe you."]
You...
[It penetrates straight to his heart, this impossible man that held a bond with him in what must amount to another life. It's not just the affection Maruki has for him... but the words he waited so long for someone to say.
They're the words that his soul screamed and cried out for, railing against the injustice done against him as he was sent away to a place entirely unknown.
They're the words that healed so many of the broken pieces within him, that made him feel like a person again. Ryuji and Ann, Sojiro and Sae.
I believe you.
They are the words he waited for and never received at the most critical juncture, his justice returned with betrayal.
[It's spoken distant, but not lost. He could be talking to Maruki, or himself, or simply no one at all.
There's nothing hurt in it. There's no sadness in it. There is only a sort of wonder.]
I won. We won. And if our realities are really different...
[He doesn't understand it, these impossibilities that go beyond even the fantastical that he learned. He understands even less how he could ever talk to someone like this, someone he doesn't know but who inherently knows him, an adult that had a position of power over him. Kurusu Akira does not trust easily, and he does not trust quickly, and he doesn't understand how that could ever change.
But it's okay, sometimes, to not understand anything at all.]
If you were there, too... I think there's no way that I could lose.
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It doesn't, not truly. But to Akira... it feels like it does. His heart must be beating, his breaths must be flowing- but he's too stunned to take stock of it all.
His world is narrowed to two things only: the pressure of a hand, and a single phrase.
"I believe you."
You...
[It penetrates straight to his heart, this impossible man that held a bond with him in what must amount to another life. It's not just the affection Maruki has for him... but the words he waited so long for someone to say.
They're the words that his soul screamed and cried out for, railing against the injustice done against him as he was sent away to a place entirely unknown.
They're the words that healed so many of the broken pieces within him, that made him feel like a person again. Ryuji and Ann, Sojiro and Sae.
They are the words he waited for and never received at the most critical juncture, his justice returned with betrayal.
They are the ones he laid awake wishing for and wondering what could have happened
if only someone had helped him back then.]
I think that I understand now.
[It's spoken distant, but not lost. He could be talking to Maruki, or himself, or simply no one at all.
There's nothing hurt in it. There's no sadness in it. There is only a sort of wonder.]
I won. We won. And if our realities are really different...
[He doesn't understand it, these impossibilities that go beyond even the fantastical that he learned. He understands even less how he could ever talk to someone like this, someone he doesn't know but who inherently knows him, an adult that had a position of power over him. Kurusu Akira does not trust easily, and he does not trust quickly, and he doesn't understand how that could ever change.
But it's okay, sometimes, to not understand anything at all.]
If you were there, too... I think there's no way that I could lose.
[Sometimes... you only need to believe.]