𝚒𝚗𝚋𝚘𝚡 — 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚗𝚒𝚊.

[sacral]

EVEN WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS

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[potentialman]

...what I've been doing, I guess. Straight shadow manipulation.

[sacral]

How does it compare to seeing your shikigami?

[potentialman]

It's more limiting. And...

It feels like a failure, too. Just...not the same one.

[sacral]

Take them back, Megumi.

[potentialman]

[ That's it, isn't it?

The only thing he can do. ]

I will.

[sacral]

It might be that the feeling never fades. But I believe you can endure it.

[potentialman]

I don't think I've done much to earn that kind of faith in me, but...I'll try not to let you down.

[sacral]

Fushiguro Megumi. You don't have to earn it.

[potentialman]

[ ...doesn't he, though?

You're shattering his worldview, Subaru. ]

[sacral]

[ He doesn't.

Within the confines of their tether, not yet fully delineated, Subaru also understands that he may be imposing what it is he feels on him.

But he doesn't rethink it — in their situation, they can't afford to. ]