บท 444: His Wound Never Healed

And then I turned to face him, as I added:

"Running away might seem an easy, easy solution for you to follow. You kept saying you wanted to rescue him, but why didn't you ever stay long enough to meet him before?"

"Stop! Stop! Just stop it!" he roared again, and his yellings and pathetic powerless punches didn't manage to stop me from continuing.

"If you really wanted to save him, at least you'd have waited for a stage before jumping. You know you can see him before quest fifteen, and yet you chose to not do so."

"Stop! Stop!"

"Do you know… Why?" I kept talking, "do you know why you didn't even think about staying long enough for one apocalypse, or work so damn hard to just see him once? Do you even want to see him?"

"No… No… I can't! I can't!" Instead of punching me, he just shouted at the world, as a beast who was roaring at the unfairness of this world in its last breaths.

"Why? Why didn't you do that?"

"Stop it!"