[ Mitsuru won't even attempt to deny that, any of it, because there is no denying it.
[ Yukari is right. The longer that she and Kotone drift in this agonizing limbo, the more and more difficult bridging this distance between them will become. But ... ]
I'm afraid, Yukari.
[ She sounds it, too. Uncharacteristically small and fragile and uncertain. But she doesn't shy away from Yuakri's gaze admitting it. ]
I'm afraid that I'll hurt her again, and lose her forever because of it.
[ Mitsuru wipes at her eyes again. ]
Whatever else that I might have wanted ... whatever else I might feel for her ... none of that matters now. All that I want is to avoid losing one of the two people in my life that matter the most to me.
[ For all the money and influence and reach that she has, the truth is that her world is a very small thing. It might have expanded a great deal from what it once was, even with the loss of her father, but if you distilled it down to the things that mean everything to her ...?
[ She has the Group.
[ She has Akihiko, Aragaki-san, Yamagishi-chan, Aigis, Amada-kun, Iori-san, and Koromaru.
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Date: 2021-10-14 03:53 am (UTC)[ Yukari is right. The longer that she and Kotone drift in this agonizing limbo, the more and more difficult bridging this distance between them will become. But ... ]
I'm afraid, Yukari.
[ She sounds it, too. Uncharacteristically small and fragile and uncertain. But she doesn't shy away from Yuakri's gaze admitting it. ]
I'm afraid that I'll hurt her again, and lose her forever because of it.
[ Mitsuru wipes at her eyes again. ]
Whatever else that I might have wanted ... whatever else I might feel for her ... none of that matters now. All that I want is to avoid losing one of the two people in my life that matter the most to me.
[ For all the money and influence and reach that she has, the truth is that her world is a very small thing. It might have expanded a great deal from what it once was, even with the loss of her father, but if you distilled it down to the things that mean everything to her ...?
[ She has the Group.
[ She has Akihiko, Aragaki-san, Yamagishi-chan, Aigis, Amada-kun, Iori-san, and Koromaru.
[ She has Yukari and Kotone. ]