[He was silent for a good few seconds, suddenly sobered by what the other him had snarked out, by the weight of the reality. The kids, protecting the orphanage, making sure they never had to worry about being taken and used the same way he and Livio had been, tortured and twisted into monsters when they should have been just children. In the end, what he'd done had been both what got him killed, and the proudest thing he'd ever done. But the pride of it weighed heavy on him, because even having come to accept what had happened and where he was, he was still dead.
It was also something he didn't feel like shouting out into the wind. It was too personal, too important. So when he spoke again, it was from a spot a couple of feet to the side of Wolfwood, after he'd stood to move closer so he could sit near him and didn't have to shout, but there could still be a polite distance between them.]
I promise. After what I did...the Eye never touches another kid. That's why I know Livio is fine...he...Vash helped me break him out of what they did to 'im. After that, there is no Eye of Michael. An' Livio went on to protect the orphanage after.
[There's a heaviness in his voice, hesitations where he tries not to give too much away. Give him the peace of knowing he saved them without burdening him with the fact that it was the last thing he ever did.
Even if, looking back on it, knowing how much it had hurt Vash (and still did, if the trips he made to visit his grave even all these years later, well after the Punisher he had used for his headstone had become a sand-blasted, deteriorated pile of scrap, were any indication) he knows he would do it all over again, if given the chance.]
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It was also something he didn't feel like shouting out into the wind. It was too personal, too important. So when he spoke again, it was from a spot a couple of feet to the side of Wolfwood, after he'd stood to move closer so he could sit near him and didn't have to shout, but there could still be a polite distance between them.]
I promise. After what I did...the Eye never touches another kid. That's why I know Livio is fine...he...Vash helped me break him out of what they did to 'im. After that, there is no Eye of Michael. An' Livio went on to protect the orphanage after.
[There's a heaviness in his voice, hesitations where he tries not to give too much away. Give him the peace of knowing he saved them without burdening him with the fact that it was the last thing he ever did.
Even if, looking back on it, knowing how much it had hurt Vash (and still did, if the trips he made to visit his grave even all these years later, well after the Punisher he had used for his headstone had become a sand-blasted, deteriorated pile of scrap, were any indication) he knows he would do it all over again, if given the chance.]