"Well, that's not how it was here. Amada and the dog were both in SEES."
Which is how it should have been. Though it would be more correct to say that neither of them should have been part of SEES or Strega at all in the first place—just not had anything to do with either group. All Koromaru needed was a roof over his head and someone to take care of him. And Amada... should have been allowed to be a kid. He should've still been watching anime and manga and shit, doing stupid kid things. He shouldn't have been going around acting like he expected to wake up the next morning as someone far older than his body pretended to be. Like he could grow up overnight by wishing it.
But this is... something Shinjiro knows he can't change. This isn't his world. He can only hear the echoes of what had happened. If he could change things, everything about his life would be different. He still doesn't like it, but the only person to blame for that is him. Amada had ultimately made his own choice. Shinjiro had set him on that path, and he had chosen to walk down it in Miki's world. That kid was going to one day become just like him, just as Shinjiro had warned him. You couldn't be around people like that and not be—not likely, unless Miki was right in saying they had a good possibility of turning their lives around. And maybe they could. He can't see that far ahead.
"And Shirato and Sakaki are dead, far as I know. In the end, Shirato killed himself. Minako didn't know what happened to Sakaki."
Shinjiro still assumes Tartarus collapsed on top of him. That seemed as good of a guess as any.
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Which is how it should have been. Though it would be more correct to say that neither of them should have been part of SEES or Strega at all in the first place—just not had anything to do with either group. All Koromaru needed was a roof over his head and someone to take care of him. And Amada... should have been allowed to be a kid. He should've still been watching anime and manga and shit, doing stupid kid things. He shouldn't have been going around acting like he expected to wake up the next morning as someone far older than his body pretended to be. Like he could grow up overnight by wishing it.
But this is... something Shinjiro knows he can't change. This isn't his world. He can only hear the echoes of what had happened. If he could change things, everything about his life would be different. He still doesn't like it, but the only person to blame for that is him. Amada had ultimately made his own choice. Shinjiro had set him on that path, and he had chosen to walk down it in Miki's world. That kid was going to one day become just like him, just as Shinjiro had warned him. You couldn't be around people like that and not be—not likely, unless Miki was right in saying they had a good possibility of turning their lives around. And maybe they could. He can't see that far ahead.
"And Shirato and Sakaki are dead, far as I know. In the end, Shirato killed himself. Minako didn't know what happened to Sakaki."
Shinjiro still assumes Tartarus collapsed on top of him. That seemed as good of a guess as any.