Rei: Well, I’m quite certain that I am to blame. But that is precisely why I want to heal the very wounds I inflicted upon you. If we were to not even think twice of those we hurt, we would truly become monsters.
Kuro: Can I trust that? Because you sweet-talking me into—nah, because your persistent offer tired me out, I’ve joined your plan. But will the future you envision /really/ come? I just can’t believe it.
That was nothing more than a short-lived dream: to join hands with someone I’d known since before school and stand as the leaders of the revolution in Yumenosaki… And then, due to various reasons, that future was destroyed.
Rei: No one likes having the things they believe are theirs snatched away from them, after all.
Kuro: …Why’re ya lookin’ over at /me/, Sakuma? I didn’t snatch anything, I just picked up what you decided ta throw out ‘cause ya didn’t want it anymore.
Souma: From the Battle versus the Sea God onward, you and Kiryu-dono were overly cautious of me, and thus I experienced difficulty in closing the distance between us. I assume it was to avoid hurting me, but it is lonesome to be pushed away and kept at an arm’s length.
I still can’t get rid of this uncertainty… What if I made an error in my judgment? Is this choice of mine truly correct? … I have no choice but to prepare myself for the worst and put my body and soul into it– No, I have to yield myself to fate.
Kuro: But y’know, he’s surprisingly the emotional type… He’s learned various tricks to keep it under control, but the drop in performance makes it obvious when his heart isn’t in it …Wait, is that your aim?
Rei: Just whose dream is it? Is it your own dream? Or do you just want to fulfill the dream of someone you care about? If it’s the latter then that’s real stupid, ya know? Is there any guarantee that you’ll be rewarded for sacrificin’ your life all for someone else’s sake?
How cowardly, even for me. But I only wanted to present you with something pure as much as possible, Kanzaki. Your promising future has no need for heavy burdens and dark objects. It was foolish of me to be thinking like that. It’s not as if I could keep covering it up either…
Don’t waste your time. I’ve already come to terms with it, and I even went overboard in my revenge by subduing you as one of the Five Eccentrics. I don’t think that there is anything I can do to repent for that sin.