[The first question is one that earns him a little laugh, and Souji shakes his head a little even though he doesn't bother moving it away from Jae-ha's.]
Yamazaki-san is a fine doctor. He only worries as a doctor would.
[Honestly Yamazaki deserves a gotdam award for putting up with him. In any case, it's not that that's unnerved him, and he feels he'll continue to defy Yamazaki's well-intentioned orders until he's physically incapable of continuing to do so.
As his hand is moved and he can feel Jae-ha's heartbeat beneath his fingertips, he feels a little more at peace, somehow. There are certainly moments he hates this castle and hates being here. But he'd meant it when he said he doesn't regret it. Not if it brings him to people like this, who say they understand and truly, truly do.]
...It's a kind thing to say. A nice one to hear, too. I will fight, you know? I'll fight for as long as I can.
[Because he is defiant, and he'll always push himself to and beyond his limits in search of more than what he has. Affection, love, time, health. His fingers curl a little into the fabric of Jae-ha's shirt. A beat of silence passes.]
...There are people here from the world I know, but much farther into the future, long after I've died. I suppose you could say I'm a piece of history to them.
[Along with everything written out; all their victories and losses, all their triumphs and defeats, all of the suffering whittled down to pages of print in a book. The notion of reading it is more terrifying to him than the thought he might die here, honestly. It's an answer to Jae-ha's first question, in any case; no one told him. Not exactly.]
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Yamazaki-san is a fine doctor. He only worries as a doctor would.
[Honestly Yamazaki deserves a gotdam award for putting up with him. In any case, it's not that that's unnerved him, and he feels he'll continue to defy Yamazaki's well-intentioned orders until he's physically incapable of continuing to do so.
As his hand is moved and he can feel Jae-ha's heartbeat beneath his fingertips, he feels a little more at peace, somehow. There are certainly moments he hates this castle and hates being here. But he'd meant it when he said he doesn't regret it. Not if it brings him to people like this, who say they understand and truly, truly do.]
...It's a kind thing to say. A nice one to hear, too. I will fight, you know? I'll fight for as long as I can.
[Because he is defiant, and he'll always push himself to and beyond his limits in search of more than what he has. Affection, love, time, health. His fingers curl a little into the fabric of Jae-ha's shirt. A beat of silence passes.]
...There are people here from the world I know, but much farther into the future, long after I've died. I suppose you could say I'm a piece of history to them.
[Along with everything written out; all their victories and losses, all their triumphs and defeats, all of the suffering whittled down to pages of print in a book. The notion of reading it is more terrifying to him than the thought he might die here, honestly. It's an answer to Jae-ha's first question, in any case; no one told him. Not exactly.]