...I'm pretty sure I told you I was fine and you didn't need to bother going out of your way.
[ he sounds a little begrudging as he says that, tone a little quieter. ]
Go worry about everyone else. There's a lot of us again and you can only look in so many directions at once.
[ it's not just the two of them, anymore, and maybe that too is just another reason he's being such a hardhead about this. it's hard enough to open up even just a little to Hijikata alone; now that they're swarmed again with the others, they might as well have not only gone back to zero, but progressed backwards, in the process. ]
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[ he sounds a little begrudging as he says that, tone a little quieter. ]
Go worry about everyone else. There's a lot of us again and you can only look in so many directions at once.
[ it's not just the two of them, anymore, and maybe that too is just another reason he's being such a hardhead about this. it's hard enough to open up even just a little to Hijikata alone; now that they're swarmed again with the others, they might as well have not only gone back to zero, but progressed backwards, in the process. ]