They just had to take the dog didn't they. Shinjiro's urgent-laced voice snaps her back into a serious mood and she nods, suddenly aware that this seems to be wrong. That hadn't happened in his world?
"Minato, Chidori, Shirato, Amada and Koromaru. Sakaki used to be part of them too, but from what Minato told me, they kicked him out after a hit. He became crazier as time went on..."
Some things hadn't completely changed.
"Before the final battle, Ken and I talked. About the future, Phoen--" she stops suddenly. "--We talked about our respective teams a lot. He helped me understand Minato. I really had thought he had killed you...Amada said they were like a close knit family. They found him in an alley during the dark hour, and Minato insisted they brought him with them. It was...odd hearing a group you'd been trying to stop for the past few months being talked like...like I felt with SEES. I was glad he had found people he could proudly call that way..." She closed her eyes and brought her knees closer. Ken might have surrounded himself by murders, but it seemed that they had been taking care of him. They had, after all, found him first.
"I made him promise that after this was all over, he'd get a proper education. Maybe we could find a way to get Shirato and Minato enrolled too, for all that good that would do. Not that it would ever excuse them for what they had done...but I guess even Strega deserved a second chance. That's what happened in the end, after all..."
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"Minato, Chidori, Shirato, Amada and Koromaru. Sakaki used to be part of them too, but from what Minato told me, they kicked him out after a hit. He became crazier as time went on..."
Some things hadn't completely changed.
"Before the final battle, Ken and I talked. About the future, Phoen--" she stops suddenly. "--We talked about our respective teams a lot. He helped me understand Minato. I really had thought he had killed you...Amada said they were like a close knit family. They found him in an alley during the dark hour, and Minato insisted they brought him with them. It was...odd hearing a group you'd been trying to stop for the past few months being talked like...like I felt with SEES. I was glad he had found people he could proudly call that way..." She closed her eyes and brought her knees closer. Ken might have surrounded himself by murders, but it seemed that they had been taking care of him. They had, after all, found him first.
"I made him promise that after this was all over, he'd get a proper education. Maybe we could find a way to get Shirato and Minato enrolled too, for all that good that would do. Not that it would ever excuse them for what they had done...but I guess even Strega deserved a second chance. That's what happened in the end, after all..."