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Oh no. She was getting feisty. He did indeed remember when he asked her why she killed demons, it seemed unnecessary. Nobody deserved to die, no matter how cruel they were. He remembered that mission as well, the one that she was talking about, the one where Kal was slaughtered. "Wait, Rynn...you know I have. You know i've seen things that most people wouldn't be able to handle. I understand your frustration, but..." But she was just going along. How could she stop, when she already started in full swing? She went on about her team, how she fought in their memory. He had heard this a million times, and, perhaps, the new addition was the thing that changed something. In her anger, she had slammed her weapon against the tree bark, yelling about how he should have woken her up. Akiko sat up, using most of his strength to do so. His face had an actual touch of anger about it.
This didn't happen often, it was actually only the second time he had ever actually gotten angry with somebody, but he was sick of it. "Rynn. You know that what I did is why both of us are still here. I wasn't going to wake you up, and I wasn't going to leave you behind. There were hundreds of them, if I had woken you up in that condition, you would have run in and gotten yourself killed! How do you think that would have made me feel?!" Akiko paused for a moment, taking a deep breath to calm himself down. "You're always going on about how I need to look after myself, and not for you or other people. You say you can handle yourself, but i've saved your life...what, five times now? Six? More? I look out for you, Rynn. I like you, I really do, but it's..." Akiko took a deep sigh. "I understand what you fight for. It's a good cause, but if you're going to keep being so stubborn about it, at least don't tell me that helping you is wrong! I really do try to keep you alive, Rynn. Don't you get that? You think that everyone else gets the special treatment? No...I do help who I can, but I keep you alive, Rynn. I'm always looking out for you, and you think that's a bad thing? I didn't wake you up because I didn't want you to go killing yourself. Sometimes I wonder if in these sorts of situations, you would have done what I had done. What if I had lost, Rynn? Would you have woken me up, pushed me into the fight knowing that I might not come out? Are you really that against everybody that you would have done the opposite?"