[ He doesn't look too surprised by the reaction. Even if Ken is shouting it, even if it'd be an odd reaction to what Shinjiro said for anyone who would look on and not know them, Shinjiro himself doesn't even flinch or really move at the wortds.
He knows it's not how it should be. He, too, remembers the night that ended with two bullets in his body and a drop to the cold ground, and then.. nothing. Nothing until he found himself here, but it's not like this can be the afterlife if Ken is here too, so something just went horribly wrong or weird along the way. (It's not how it should be, because he got what he deserved and managed to stop something even worse happening to the kid along the way, and that was that.)
But both of them freaking out won't do anyone any good, and if there's anything Shinjiro is good at aside from being a mother hen, it's keeping his calm when others freak out. ]
Yeah. It's not. [ The words themselves even are calm, without any particular emotion, even if they're a little bit softer than they'd usually be.
But even so, there's only one thing first and foremost on his mind. Because he's dead anyway (even if he doesn't really feel like it right now), and he got a fitting end, so-- ]
Let's get you back home. [ He's already stepping forward to look around further into whatever kind of weird place they ended up in. Because what is confronting his issues now if he can just focus on doing what's right for Ken instead - something he should have been doing a long, long time ago, anyway - and just wallow in his own issues and guilt for all eternity in whatever afterlife is waiting for him, who doesn't have anywhere to go back to?
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He knows it's not how it should be. He, too, remembers the night that ended with two bullets in his body and a drop to the cold ground, and then.. nothing. Nothing until he found himself here, but it's not like this can be the afterlife if Ken is here too, so something just went horribly wrong or weird along the way. (It's not how it should be, because he got what he deserved and managed to stop something even worse happening to the kid along the way, and that was that.)
But both of them freaking out won't do anyone any good, and if there's anything Shinjiro is good at
aside from being a mother hen, it's keeping his calm when others freak out. ]Yeah. It's not. [ The words themselves even are calm, without any particular emotion, even if they're a little bit softer than they'd usually be.
But even so, there's only one thing first and foremost on his mind. Because he's dead anyway (even if he doesn't really feel like it right now), and he got a fitting end, so-- ]
Let's get you back home. [ He's already stepping forward to look around further into whatever kind of weird place they ended up in. Because what is confronting his issues now if he can just focus on doing what's right for Ken instead - something he should have been doing a long, long time ago, anyway - and just wallow in his own issues and guilt for all eternity in whatever afterlife is waiting for him, who doesn't have anywhere to go back to?
So that's that. ]