[ the look just gets an apologetic shrug, and Vash curling in on himself more. He didn't mean that Wolfwood will die in December. He just watched him die. Once again, failed...
But he tilts his head at Wolfwood at the last part. ]
You know that you wouldn't have had a chance against Knives. I... might have been a little underprepared also. I... When we were little, we thought that only Nai had special powers. And he didn't need to eat or drink or sleep. It was many years after the crash that I found out I even have a Gate also. Like all the plants, where they get all the things they produce, only my Gate kind of runs the opposite direction. I and others almost died, sucked in, when it opened. It was Nai who stopped that from happening. But after that, I've been reluctant to try and use it.
The older Knives, he told me what to focus on. If I am to face off with... my Knives, I'll need that knowledge and skill, so I've been practicing. It's part of why the other me left. I think his Knives may be making him use his Gate as Knives would, but that's not how it's best used. Or something. [ He's looking out over the sands. ] This world, each of our worlds, all of you, you deserve nothing less than the best of me. And I seem to have botched things at JuLai. I'll do better.
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But he tilts his head at Wolfwood at the last part. ]
You know that you wouldn't have had a chance against Knives. I... might have been a little underprepared also. I... When we were little, we thought that only Nai had special powers. And he didn't need to eat or drink or sleep. It was many years after the crash that I found out I even have a Gate also. Like all the plants, where they get all the things they produce, only my Gate kind of runs the opposite direction. I and others almost died, sucked in, when it opened. It was Nai who stopped that from happening. But after that, I've been reluctant to try and use it.
The older Knives, he told me what to focus on. If I am to face off with... my Knives, I'll need that knowledge and skill, so I've been practicing. It's part of why the other me left. I think his Knives may be making him use his Gate as Knives would, but that's not how it's best used. Or something. [ He's looking out over the sands. ] This world, each of our worlds, all of you, you deserve nothing less than the best of me. And I seem to have botched things at JuLai. I'll do better.