He preferred being around humanity, and going from place to place. I didn't. Still don't.
[It's as honest an explanation as he can manage. They'd only separated at all because Vash suddenly decided to get in a car with strangers, and they didn't even have candy. But Vash paid for that mistake, and learned an important lesson about why it's bad to get into vehicles with strangers.
Knives learned he could indeed wipe out an entire town in one shot if he planned it right. It was educational all around.
That knowing look his younger self gives him earns another brief smile. It wasn't the Fall that caused that problem. Surely not. Vash barely had a problem with that until he was much older! Sure there was a tantrum or two early on, but after that, it wasn't until years after they parted..]
He put up with my unwillingness to visit every town, hole in the wall and stinking dump possible for eighty years before going his own way.
[If it were the Fall, surely Vash wouldn't have hung around that long! So it was other things. Humanity, Knives disliking stopping at towns and helping literally every single human with whatever problem they were having this time..]
And Nai's right. It doesn't matter what happened to me, you two have each other, and there's no reason you two should ever have to deal with the same problems.
[He leans on the horn of the jeep-thing suddenly, its loud echoing honk audible for quite some distance. And probably for a reason, there's the shape of a house on the horizon, and beyond that, the even more distant shapes that might be more of them. No harm in letting Tessla know they're inbound, surely..]
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[It's as honest an explanation as he can manage. They'd only separated at all because Vash suddenly decided to get in a car with strangers, and they didn't even have candy. But Vash paid for that mistake, and learned an important lesson about why it's bad to get into vehicles with strangers.
Knives learned he could indeed wipe out an entire town in one shot if he planned it right. It was educational all around.
That knowing look his younger self gives him earns another brief smile. It wasn't the Fall that caused that problem. Surely not. Vash barely had a problem with that until he was much older! Sure there was a tantrum or two early on, but after that, it wasn't until years after they parted..]
He put up with my unwillingness to visit every town, hole in the wall and stinking dump possible for eighty years before going his own way.
[If it were the Fall, surely Vash wouldn't have hung around that long! So it was other things. Humanity, Knives disliking stopping at towns and helping literally every single human with whatever problem they were having this time..]
And Nai's right. It doesn't matter what happened to me, you two have each other, and there's no reason you two should ever have to deal with the same problems.
[He leans on the horn of the jeep-thing suddenly, its loud echoing honk audible for quite some distance. And probably for a reason, there's the shape of a house on the horizon, and beyond that, the even more distant shapes that might be more of them. No harm in letting Tessla know they're inbound, surely..]