[ there's a weight to his words when he says them, a seriousness, unflinching from the truth of it all. ] We attacked them.
[ xie lian is inherently an extremely kind person - despite being a fighter, and even a martial god, he's always tried not to harm someone whenever possible. he is not, and never has been, violent... and at the worst moment in his life, when he did act in ways unbecoming of his normal character, xie lian was at least aware of it.
but this. there was barely anything he could do. no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make it stop.
i told you, did i not? you cannot protect anything. you never will.
he's quiet for a moment. ] ...I was able to regain my consciousness for a brief few seconds during, and commanded Ruoye to help Miss Ochako. She and Archer were able to successfully incapacitate us.
[ that's the simplest way to summarize it, without getting too into the gory detail of it all. ]
[ it's around his arm like always! behaving itself.
"scared"... ]
Was I scared that I could have done it, you mean? [ xie lian pauses, for a moment. hikaru had asked for his honesty; his brows knit together. ]
...I was terrified. [ simply enough. ] I have trained in combat as long as I have been alive, Hikaru. I could have easily hurt either of them far worse than what was done - I am beyond glad that Archer was the one there.
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[ xie lian is inherently an extremely kind person - despite being a fighter, and even a martial god, he's always tried not to harm someone whenever possible. he is not, and never has been, violent... and at the worst moment in his life, when he did act in ways unbecoming of his normal character, xie lian was at least aware of it.
but this. there was barely anything he could do. no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make it stop.
i told you, did i not? you cannot protect anything. you never will.
he's quiet for a moment. ] ...I was able to regain my consciousness for a brief few seconds during, and commanded Ruoye to help Miss Ochako. She and Archer were able to successfully incapacitate us.
[ that's the simplest way to summarize it, without getting too into the gory detail of it all. ]
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[Ruoye had helped, then... but where... is the little bugger, anyway?
...
Her voice stays quiet, letting the details settle.]
...Were you scared?
I... I know Sensei knows how to fight, but... Ochako-chan is just a little older than me, isn't she...?
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"scared"... ]
Was I scared that I could have done it, you mean? [ xie lian pauses, for a moment. hikaru had asked for his honesty; his brows knit together. ]
...I was terrified. [ simply enough. ] I have trained in combat as long as I have been alive, Hikaru. I could have easily hurt either of them far worse than what was done - I am beyond glad that Archer was the one there.