Vash...feels that not all-too-familiar chest-burning sensation, yet this time it isn't borne from infatuation or affection. It's a painful response at the loss of knowing what they can't have. Even if Vash didn't have Ain, settling down is not feasible. Anywhere he would try to live would have a target placed squarely on its shoulders, and Vash cannot be responsible for another community going up in flames just because he happened to stay there a little too long.
...but, oh, does he want it more than anything. To live on this earth like a normal person, to thrive with human beings and feel their love without feeling like there's something he needs to make up for.
Ain is being practical. Reminding Vash of that. It's what he would be telling himself, if he were alone.
He screws his eyes shut, convincing himself that the sting in his eyes is soap, and nothing else.]
...when should we go, then?
[He very deliberately avoids commenting on the rest of what Ain said, instead sweeping forward in the conversation.]
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Vash...feels that not all-too-familiar chest-burning sensation, yet this time it isn't borne from infatuation or affection. It's a painful response at the loss of knowing what they can't have. Even if Vash didn't have Ain, settling down is not feasible. Anywhere he would try to live would have a target placed squarely on its shoulders, and Vash cannot be responsible for another community going up in flames just because he happened to stay there a little too long.
...but, oh, does he want it more than anything. To live on this earth like a normal person, to thrive with human beings and feel their love without feeling like there's something he needs to make up for.
Ain is being practical. Reminding Vash of that. It's what he would be telling himself, if he were alone.
He screws his eyes shut, convincing himself that the sting in his eyes is soap, and nothing else.]
...when should we go, then?
[He very deliberately avoids commenting on the rest of what Ain said, instead sweeping forward in the conversation.]