[Ikki's face reflects even more pain and anger as Marco repeats his wife's name, but he knows it's not the other's fault. It's his own, for being greedy.]
I swore I wouldn't abandon her like others had... I made a vow to protect her. And I broke it because I just couldn't wait until being stronger, until being better to try to bend the universes.
[It's all he can do to hope that she will be fine. That she will still be there, with Ace and Zoro and Sanji... And not back to her world, trapped in a sleep that may have no end.
He snarls in frustration as Marco reminds him about his previous words, so that's what he meant by saying that he was late.]
So even when I fuck up I still manage to do it wrong and be late?
[But... Marco knows Leanne as well? And they went to Serenes? Ikki frowns a bit and nods at that.]
In Nautilus she got seeds from Serenes and began to grow them, to bring over a small piece of her forest. It did remind me of Athena's influence, so I rarely stepped inside, always waited for her and watched over her from the border, so that no one would harm her or the plants.
[He sighs and closes his eyes, thinking about Leanne makes him both calm down and get more restless and angry, two complete opposites. He had forgot how much her presence, her existence, grounded him. And it's his fault, because he allowed it to happen, he shouldn't have allowed himself to become so dependent on her.]
What would fight you serve? It's not you who I want to burn, fighting would just distract me, and that's what they want, isn't it? Isn't that whay they always try? To distract us, to make us lower our guard and then they take whatever we allowed ourselves to care for, to hurt us.
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I swore I wouldn't abandon her like others had... I made a vow to protect her. And I broke it because I just couldn't wait until being stronger, until being better to try to bend the universes.
[It's all he can do to hope that she will be fine. That she will still be there, with Ace and Zoro and Sanji... And not back to her world, trapped in a sleep that may have no end.
He snarls in frustration as Marco reminds him about his previous words, so that's what he meant by saying that he was late.]
So even when I fuck up I still manage to do it wrong and be late?
[But... Marco knows Leanne as well? And they went to Serenes? Ikki frowns a bit and nods at that.]
In Nautilus she got seeds from Serenes and began to grow them, to bring over a small piece of her forest. It did remind me of Athena's influence, so I rarely stepped inside, always waited for her and watched over her from the border, so that no one would harm her or the plants.
[He sighs and closes his eyes, thinking about Leanne makes him both calm down and get more restless and angry, two complete opposites. He had forgot how much her presence, her existence, grounded him. And it's his fault, because he allowed it to happen, he shouldn't have allowed himself to become so dependent on her.]
What would fight you serve? It's not you who I want to burn, fighting would just distract me, and that's what they want, isn't it? Isn't that whay they always try? To distract us, to make us lower our guard and then they take whatever we allowed ourselves to care for, to hurt us.