He bares his teeth. Fresh tears fall from his eyes. He always gets too emotional when he wants to protect someone dear to him.
"Plenty can hurt you. It has. What's stopping you from being hurt by someone who can manipulate life and death at a distance without warning? I can't let that happen."
He can't force him to come with him. That would undermine all the work Midoriya has put into reminding Kaworu of his own agency. It might also provoke another pitched fight. There's been too much death already.
"I wanted to protect you from this. Remember? What I said before we went to rescue Anon-san, about how you don't have to be what you were raised for. You can make a new life. We can make a kinder world. Teacher went against that."
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"Plenty can hurt you. It has. What's stopping you from being hurt by someone who can manipulate life and death at a distance without warning? I can't let that happen."
He can't force him to come with him. That would undermine all the work Midoriya has put into reminding Kaworu of his own agency. It might also provoke another pitched fight. There's been too much death already.
"I wanted to protect you from this. Remember? What I said before we went to rescue Anon-san, about how you don't have to be what you were raised for. You can make a new life. We can make a kinder world. Teacher went against that."