[...That'd probably be easier than the truth, frankly. Shinjiro sighs, rubbing at his face. He's never told the story to anyone else before; the only ones who knew had been there. He continues writing it up for the man, though it goes slow. Sometimes one line at a time and nothing further for several minutes. Sometimes the typing dots hang interminably before disappearing, and it's possible he's abandoned the story without finishing it. But eventually, the whole picture begins to emerge.]
it's more complicated than that i passed out sometime while my persona was goin wild, so i dunno exactly what happened to him afterward if he got shipped off to some orphanage like me or if he had other folks to take him or what but he had the potential, and he ended up with my old group a couple years later he was looking for me, to get revenge
i would've let him have it, but we got interrupted
[He hesitates here, considering whether it's actually worth getting into Strega and the nature of that interruption, but ultimately decides it's too long and complicated of a tangent, especially since it requires the explanation of the suppressants he'd avoided last time, too. He'll stick to the bare bones.]
that's its own long story but the short version is, the kid was gonna get killed because of shit i did trying to make up for the first mess i made and i couldn't let that happen now it's like he thinks he owes me or some shit when i'm the reason he was in that mess in the first place and i'm the one who ruined his life
he's literally sleeping down the goddamn hall right now because it's not like i could fucking tell him not to stay with me i don't know what to do
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it's more complicated than that
i passed out sometime while my persona was goin wild, so i dunno exactly what happened to him afterward
if he got shipped off to some orphanage like me or if he had other folks to take him or what but he had the potential, and he ended up with my old group a couple years later
he was looking for me, to get revenge
i would've let him have it, but we got interrupted
[He hesitates here, considering whether it's actually worth getting into Strega and the nature of that interruption, but ultimately decides it's too long and complicated of a tangent, especially since it requires the explanation of the suppressants he'd avoided last time, too. He'll stick to the bare bones.]
that's its own long story but the short version is, the kid was gonna get killed because of shit i did trying to make up for the first mess i made
and i couldn't let that happen
now it's like he thinks he owes me or some shit when i'm the reason he was in that mess in the first place and i'm the one who ruined his life
he's literally sleeping down the goddamn hall right now because it's not like i could fucking tell him not to stay with me
i don't know what to do