There might be something - not comforting, exactly - in knowing that no matter what he knows to expect, how many times he's been through it before and braced himself for the twist of the knife, that Souji knows exactly how to hit him where it hurts.
Some things never change. It's a pity that the only constants in their lives seem to be the things that hurt.
"This isn't about Yamazaki. This is about the fact that if I run now it isn't going to change a single goddamned thing."
No matter what they can't remember from before, the clues left scratched out for them, the scars and the evidence that something happened before - it all hints that they've done this, too many times, and it's gone wrong, every time. That they were locking themselves into the same bloody cycle the moment they opened that door, and there's not much they can hope to do differently now but to leave themselves one more reason to listen to their own advice when it starts all over again.
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There might be something - not comforting, exactly - in knowing that no matter what he knows to expect, how many times he's been through it before and braced himself for the twist of the knife, that Souji knows exactly how to hit him where it hurts.
Some things never change. It's a pity that the only constants in their lives seem to be the things that hurt.
"This isn't about Yamazaki. This is about the fact that if I run now it isn't going to change a single goddamned thing."
No matter what they can't remember from before, the clues left scratched out for them, the scars and the evidence that something happened before - it all hints that they've done this, too many times, and it's gone wrong, every time. That they were locking themselves into the same bloody cycle the moment they opened that door, and there's not much they can hope to do differently now but to leave themselves one more reason to listen to their own advice when it starts all over again.