[That warning would've gotten a very different response, coming from just about anybody else, but as soon as he hears that voice, and looks over to the source, that moment of embarrassment is the very last thing on Ken's mind, because there's no way -
But Shinjiro Aragaki is standing there before him, completely whole, as healthy as he ever looks (the hobo aesthetic doesn't make a guy look super fit, though), and definitely not in any stage of bleeding out from a gunshot wound.
This is how it should be.
To hell with that crap!
It's enough to make the previous night's events seem like an impossibly vivid dream...although given the current state of everything, Ken's sensible enough to realize that it's far more likely that this is the dream. But even if it is - he wasn't ready for this, because even after last night and the sudden desperate feeling in his gut that this wasn't what he wanted after all, that Shinji couldn't die now because...because...
It's not like Ken still has any idea what on earth he's going to say to him.
Not knowing doesn't mean he's not going to say anything, though, because he doesn't stop think before one thing slips right out of his mouth -]
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But Shinjiro Aragaki is standing there before him, completely whole, as healthy as he ever looks (the hobo aesthetic doesn't make a guy look super fit, though), and definitely not in any stage of bleeding out from a gunshot wound.
This is how it should be.
To hell with that crap!
It's enough to make the previous night's events seem like an impossibly vivid dream...although given the current state of everything, Ken's sensible enough to realize that it's far more likely that this is the dream. But even if it is - he wasn't ready for this, because even after last night and the sudden desperate feeling in his gut that this wasn't what he wanted after all, that Shinji couldn't die now because...because...
It's not like Ken still has any idea what on earth he's going to say to him.
Not knowing doesn't mean he's not going to say anything, though, because he doesn't stop think before one thing slips right out of his mouth -]
This isn't how it should be at all!