Eighteenth Star

[heavenfang]

All this talk...about murders and redemption.

Well I've got a reality check...no matter what any person, government, or deity might say...there are no pardons. There is no redeeming a bloodied hand. Once someone has killed, there's no turning back to innocence. It's impossible. Once someone has...murdered...they will never have a clean soul again.

That burden will be carried with them to the end of their days...and for some of them, that end will never come...

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[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...Kazuki...

[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

You're a soldier, right? That's just what soldiers do...

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

This wasn't a battle...this wasn't self defense...I had other choices. He was already beaten.

[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

But... You wouldn't do that, right? It was Soul Eater?

where game canon and manga canon differ, orz

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...I

...it wasn't all the Rune...that was merely the push.

[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

...

I don't know... That kind of weight.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

I pray you never do.

[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

...I can't say it's okay either.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

You...you don't have to.

[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

I'd want to, though! If it would make you feel better.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

No, I mean...no one has to tell me "it will be okay". I mean, I've accepted my fate, after all.

[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

But that's not good enough...

It's not good enough if you feel like this!

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...give me a decade or so and maybe I'll get used to it.

[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

Tir.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...I guess that wasn't a very good joke, huh?

[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

No...

Are you in your room? I feel like I should come see you.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

I was just out training.

[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

Come home?

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...in a moment.

[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

...Thanks.

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[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

And so he arrives home, entering without a sound and just plopping onto the sofa, not even bothering to put his shirt back on. There's no huff, no sigh...no anything.

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[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

Kazuki came out of his room when he heard the down open (and he really had to try, Tir could be sneaky when he wanted to be) but hesitated a bit when he came to the couch. There was something about his partner right now that he didn't like, in the way that mice don't like large snakes. He wasn't sure how to handle it.

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[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

"Are you afraid now that you know the truth? That I willingly killed him?" Tir spoke, his tone of voice not cold just...broken. Why had such a simple statement caused such a dramatic shift in his mood? A day ago, he had been on cloud nine...

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[ilpresto.livejournal.com]

"No!" He answered quickly, shaking his head, and sat down with resolution, "No, I'm not afraid of you."

"I just... I don't know what to say."

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[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

Tir began to speak...the words most certainly not his own

"You have become so strong. I lived for what I believed in. And I have no regrets. You must also live for what you believe in. I give blessings to your choice. I am happy. The greatest happiness... a father can experience... is to see his son... surpass himself."

Tir turned to face Kazuki, his look cast to the distance though.

"Those were his last words...before I killed him."