[ In truth, Kim had half-expected Aragaki to turn him away, to say that it was nothing, to leave him with nothing. He wouldn't blame the kid. The weight of orphaning a child is a heavy one -- a weight that he himself bears, but without the same sense of remorse and regret, with the distilled clarity of a grown man who had known what he was doing, who had done it intentionally. He does not expect anyone to divulge that sort of thing to him.
But slowly, steadily, the story appears on his screen in flashes of text, as impassive as though he were reading a case report instead of hearing the story of the troubled young man he has come to know in some shape or form over the past few months. A few months ago, he would have thought that Aragaki was having a significant psychic break, and would be remorseful that there was no mental health practitioner he could send him away to.
Now? He's seen too much to doubt the kid's story now. ]
I see.
[ He can't say it wasn't his fault. What now? ]
I'm sorry it happened. To all of you.
[ He's quiet for another couple of minutes as he mulls over what to say next. ]
So. This kid. He came after you blaming you for his mother's death. And then he saw what happened to you when you first arrived, how you had been shot. And now he wants to rebuild a relationship with you. Have I got that right?
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But slowly, steadily, the story appears on his screen in flashes of text, as impassive as though he were reading a case report instead of hearing the story of the troubled young man he has come to know in some shape or form over the past few months. A few months ago, he would have thought that Aragaki was having a significant psychic break, and would be remorseful that there was no mental health practitioner he could send him away to.
Now? He's seen too much to doubt the kid's story now. ]
I see.
[ He can't say it wasn't his fault. What now? ]
I'm sorry it happened. To all of you.
[ He's quiet for another couple of minutes as he mulls over what to say next. ]
So. This kid. He came after you blaming you for his mother's death. And then he saw what happened to you when you first arrived, how you had been shot. And now he wants to rebuild a relationship with you. Have I got that right?