[It's a surprisingly simple answer, for all the emotions and worries attached to the topic. Dante looks at his hands in his lap, thumb rubbing the place on his hand where there ought to be scar tissue growing.]
Even in the memories he's told me about. It sounds like he was the same sort of guy then, willing to give up everything he had to help the people around him.
[And it had rotted him from the inside out, unless Dante's missing his guess. But what Ardyn's told him sounds too familiar, too alike to the corruption of the darkness... he doesn't think he's wrong. However, he won't mention this part; Grell already looks too worried about him in this life to add that worry on top of everything else.]
I told him a while ago that if I needed to, I'd knock him out to keep him from pushing himself too far. I know I'm not the only one that feels that way, too.
So if he won't look after himself, we'll just have to be there to do it for him.
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[It's a surprisingly simple answer, for all the emotions and worries attached to the topic. Dante looks at his hands in his lap, thumb rubbing the place on his hand where there ought to be scar tissue growing.]
Even in the memories he's told me about. It sounds like he was the same sort of guy then, willing to give up everything he had to help the people around him.
[And it had rotted him from the inside out, unless Dante's missing his guess. But what Ardyn's told him sounds too familiar, too alike to the corruption of the darkness... he doesn't think he's wrong. However, he won't mention this part; Grell already looks too worried about him in this life to add that worry on top of everything else.]
I told him a while ago that if I needed to, I'd knock him out to keep him from pushing himself too far. I know I'm not the only one that feels that way, too.
So if he won't look after himself, we'll just have to be there to do it for him.