[There's a steady murmur of noise as the Palai around them let out sighs of relief, talk and make plans for retreating somewhere safe, but 2B doesn't hear any of that. The moment seems so quiet as she takes in what she just saw. It's good, surely, that he was able to help her in defeating that Uvi. And it's not like their opponents here are as strong as the machines were. In anyone else, she wouldn't even blink at how he just fought.
But it's not anyone else. It's 9S, and despite how he taught himself to fight, she'd never seen him move like that.
It's a heavy reminder that as much as she thinks she knows him, she doesn't know what happened after she died. She doesn't even know how long it was between then and when he got here. For all she knows, there could be years and years of things she doesn't know about him now. Not for the first time, she wants to ask so badly what happened after she was gone.
Yet she can't bring herself to voice it. If it wasn't something he brought up himself, it must've meant that he didn't want to talk about it, and how could she blame him for wanting to keep some things to himself? Wasn't it enough that he was here with her now, alive and well? Besides, now was hardly the time for it. There might never be a time for it.]
It's fine. There's nothing to apologize for. [Especially not to her. He's not the one who should be saying sorry.]
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But it's not anyone else. It's 9S, and despite how he taught himself to fight, she'd never seen him move like that.
It's a heavy reminder that as much as she thinks she knows him, she doesn't know what happened after she died. She doesn't even know how long it was between then and when he got here. For all she knows, there could be years and years of things she doesn't know about him now. Not for the first time, she wants to ask so badly what happened after she was gone.
Yet she can't bring herself to voice it. If it wasn't something he brought up himself, it must've meant that he didn't want to talk about it, and how could she blame him for wanting to keep some things to himself? Wasn't it enough that he was here with her now, alive and well? Besides, now was hardly the time for it. There might never be a time for it.]
It's fine. There's nothing to apologize for. [Especially not to her. He's not the one who should be saying sorry.]