[WELL DAMN IF SHE'S GOING TO MAKE A FACE LIKE THAT... Given the situation. He decides to make a concession. He's glad everything he says right now is reduced to a whisper because he barely wants to say this out loud at all;]
... It's not that I don't want to. I just don't know if I can. I'm... scared that I can't.
[He's been through a lot in the last like, 8 hours. It's done things to him. He will deny up and down that he ever said this if asked later. It's fine. He huffs.]
You'd say that to anyone. It doesn't mean anything. [Your relentless positivity just makes it harder to take seriously!!]
[He runs a hand over his hair. He can't argue with that. He's stubborn by nature, it's almost a point of pride for him. He remembers, vaguely, the time when Asirpa had told him not to shoot at the woodcocks because one shot would send the rest flying off in a complicated pattern. Those would be impossible to shoot. So he did, just to prove her wrong. To prove there wasn't a shot he couldn't make.]
Fine. But if I do, it won't be because you said so. It'll be because most people here probably would never think I could. [Ogata: I refuse to be INSPIRED I will function purely on SPITE.]
Mm. You should go. Stay here too long and people might think you're conspiring with a convicted murderer. [He means himself. This is probably a funny joke to him.]
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[Honestly.]
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... It's not that I don't want to. I just don't know if I can. I'm... scared that I can't.
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her voice softens.]
...I think that you can.
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You'd say that to anyone. It doesn't mean anything.
[Your relentless positivity just makes it harder to take seriously!!]
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[no one who's here right now, but.
there are some!!]
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Then what exactly is it about me that makes you think that?
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But that determination will be your strength, should you truly decide that you wish to change.
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Fine. But if I do, it won't be because you said so. It'll be because most people here probably would never think I could.
[Ogata: I refuse to be INSPIRED I will function purely on SPITE.]
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[Spite may very well be his reason for it - but she doesn't much care what his reason is, so long as it happens. So there!]
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Mm. You should go. Stay here too long and people might think you're conspiring with a convicted murderer.
[He means himself. This is probably a funny joke to him.]
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We all know that you are innocent, Ogata. [She sounds weary.] But very well. If you would prefer, I shall take my leave of you.
...until we meet again.
[She puts her hand over her hart, bows at the waist, and then leaves.]