[She can hasten a guess to what this might be about.
It's still so very, very vivid. Something impossible, yet... yet it happened. The last time she saw him, she was exhausted, but she distinctly remembers crying until she had no more tears left to shed. And perhaps one from him, as well, when he thought that she had...
But she stops those thoughts in their tracks to focus on the present, tilting her head ever so slightly.]
[He stares at her for a while, regret creeping up on the edges of his expression for a moment before being hidden behind that nigh omnipresent poker face.]
...I feel like I have to. You went through so much before coming here...and it only got worse from then on.
[And he wasn't there to help, to make living here any more bearable.]
In the end, I chose to come here. [She sighs softly.] I may not have chosen what happened to me, but it's not something that you should be held responsible for.
[Reassuring she might have been, but there's still a hint of himself that carries the blame. Was it deserved? Most likely not. Did he find himself wanting to shoulder it anyway? Yes.
Because in that moment, he nearly failed someone he held in good regard. Nearly allowed them to be swallowed up by that goddess' fog.
[He looks at her, then, listens carefully to what she has to say, with a pensive face. ...Yes, that was true, wasn't it? 'Then' didn't matter even half as much as 'now'. They got her out of that other world, helped her escape a cruel fate. They helped her face the things she was so hard-pressed to admit, to confront the truth she didn't want to stare in the face.
So what if he nearly failed her?
He still saved her. He still brought her back from the brink. That's what should have mattered.]
No, it isn't. [She shakes her head to emphasise the point.] Everything has it's time, and a time to be revisited, as well. Some more than others. You didn't make a mistake. You did the right thing. That's what you should focus on.
[It's not a hard thing for her to comfort him; it's something you pick up when you have a leader for a father, people he inspires to follow him. The same can be said of her, in its way. Only she's still in progress.
Maybe a bit more progress than a short while before.]
It's given me a lot to think about. Not only for what happened, but... the Persona, as well.
[He nods at her advice. Doing the right thing has always been an important part of his moral compass; he's glad that she's reinforced his hopes on that.
At her other remark, though...]
...Being in that other world can do that to a person. [It's probably done the same for his friends while they were recovering from their harrowing experiences there.] Still...is it along the lines of what you want out of your stay here?
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...And...if I may say something else...I'm sorry.
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It's still so very, very vivid. Something impossible, yet... yet it happened. The last time she saw him, she was exhausted, but she distinctly remembers crying until she had no more tears left to shed. And perhaps one from him, as well, when he thought that she had...
But she stops those thoughts in their tracks to focus on the present, tilting her head ever so slightly.]
You don't have to apologise, Souji.
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...I feel like I have to. You went through so much before coming here...and it only got worse from then on.
[And he wasn't there to help, to make living here any more bearable.]
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I was the one who gave up. Not you.
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[Reassuring she might have been, but there's still a hint of himself that carries the blame. Was it deserved? Most likely not. Did he find himself wanting to shoulder it anyway? Yes.
Because in that moment, he nearly failed someone he held in good regard. Nearly allowed them to be swallowed up by that goddess' fog.
That is where I could have lost you.]
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[The name slips out, but she doesn't have anything else to add to it.
Except one thing.]
Thank you. You and the others. I never got the chance to say it. But you musn't blame yourself. We're both here now, aren't we? That's what matters.
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So what if he nearly failed her?
He still saved her. He still brought her back from the brink. That's what should have mattered.]
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Mm. Now isn't really the time to be dwelling on things.
[Dwelling had a habit of wasting time they could have easily spent on what they should be doing: preparing themselves for the future.]
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[It's not a hard thing for her to comfort him; it's something you pick up when you have a leader for a father, people he inspires to follow him. The same can be said of her, in its way. Only she's still in progress.
Maybe a bit more progress than a short while before.]
It's given me a lot to think about. Not only for what happened, but... the Persona, as well.
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At her other remark, though...]
...Being in that other world can do that to a person. [It's probably done the same for his friends while they were recovering from their harrowing experiences there.] Still...is it along the lines of what you want out of your stay here?