[ His expression goes a little slack at that, eyes dipping briefly down to Shouto's hand before going back up to him. Studying.
You're... baffling, you know. Sometimes. Hot one minute and cold the next. And he tries to stack that against how he was before, how all of those add up. Utterly buried and cold in what almost seemed like projecting something into what Allen had been trying to say. Practically ripping away from the simple gesture of holding another's hand one moment and reaching out the next.
It's baffling, but... he also think he might understand it a little. And hesitantly, he shifts one hand a little to lightly hook his fingertips around the other's. Pressing gently, gratefully, in a very small sort of gesture as he just gives a quiet, uncertain nod to that. Still meeting his eyes steadily. ]
...thank you for helping me save its soul earlier. [ Not helping him fight, not helping to protect the city; those were givens. That, specifically. ] The akuma.
[ Because most people would have only see a murderous monster that should be destroyed. ]
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You're... baffling, you know. Sometimes. Hot one minute and cold the next. And he tries to stack that against how he was before, how all of those add up. Utterly buried and cold in what almost seemed like projecting something into what Allen had been trying to say. Practically ripping away from the simple gesture of holding another's hand one moment and reaching out the next.
It's baffling, but... he also think he might understand it a little. And hesitantly, he shifts one hand a little to lightly hook his fingertips around the other's. Pressing gently, gratefully, in a very small sort of gesture as he just gives a quiet, uncertain nod to that. Still meeting his eyes steadily. ]
...thank you for helping me save its soul earlier. [ Not helping him fight, not helping to protect the city; those were givens. That, specifically. ] The akuma.
[ Because most people would have only see a murderous monster that should be destroyed. ]