[ the answer falls out limply, after those grand revelations. He thought he knew. He thought the only way he could be happy was if everyone around him suffered. It wasn't fair that he was the only one; the only time he felt anything was seeing the people around him feel a fraction of the pain he was feeling.
But now he remembers his little sister's face. He remembers standing on the shores of the lake with his bloodied hands and filthy soul and realizing that everything he did was wrong, and that he couldn't take it back. And now he knows that all he'd done was go forward and do even more wrong without even knowing it. ]
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[ the answer falls out limply, after those grand revelations. He thought he knew. He thought the only way he could be happy was if everyone around him suffered. It wasn't fair that he was the only one; the only time he felt anything was seeing the people around him feel a fraction of the pain he was feeling.
But now he remembers his little sister's face. He remembers standing on the shores of the lake with his bloodied hands and filthy soul and realizing that everything he did was wrong, and that he couldn't take it back. And now he knows that all he'd done was go forward and do even more wrong without even knowing it. ]
... I don't know...
[ Hikage curls up, his voice cracking slightly. ]