[He started to put the water and sugar into the sause pan, turning on the burner and slowly letting it heat up-- using his hoof to swirl it around now and again, letting the sugar slowly melt. When he wasn't doing that, he used another pot to warm up the milk.]
I guess... the big thing is, no matter how much I wish it wasn't true...
[Another swirl of the pan...]
I have to face the fact that if Narukami is another 'me', I have the potiential of making a choice as destructive as he did.
[There was a brief pause, and Souji chuckled halfheartedly]
Unless I take the easy way out and blame it on his dad's genes or something.
[He must've gotten his looks from his mom's side of the family, obviously.]
But... like a few people have told me, and what you all showed me before, is that it all comes down to choice. What we chose to be defines us more than anything else. So even if that potiential exists within me...
[He looked up at Kanji, that determination, that unwavering resolve-- it was a light in his eyes again, and he nodded firmly.]
I'm never going to let it be anything more then that. And I won't let his destructive and dumbass choices weigh me down anymore. I'm not him, as... odd as that sounds. We come from the same place, maybe, but I chose and will continue to chose to never follow down a path like his. No shortcuts, no shutting you guys out, no running away and not facing my problems head on. That's a promise I'm making to myself-- and to you all too, right now.
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[He started to put the water and sugar into the sause pan, turning on the burner and slowly letting it heat up-- using his hoof to swirl it around now and again, letting the sugar slowly melt. When he wasn't doing that, he used another pot to warm up the milk.]
I guess... the big thing is, no matter how much I wish it wasn't true...
[Another swirl of the pan...]
I have to face the fact that if Narukami is another 'me', I have the potiential of making a choice as destructive as he did.
[There was a brief pause, and Souji chuckled halfheartedly]
Unless I take the easy way out and blame it on his dad's genes or something.
[He must've gotten his looks from his mom's side of the family, obviously.]
But... like a few people have told me, and what you all showed me before, is that it all comes down to choice. What we chose to be defines us more than anything else. So even if that potiential exists within me...
[He looked up at Kanji, that determination, that unwavering resolve-- it was a light in his eyes again, and he nodded firmly.]
I'm never going to let it be anything more then that. And I won't let his destructive and dumbass choices weigh me down anymore. I'm not him, as... odd as that sounds. We come from the same place, maybe, but I chose and will continue to chose to never follow down a path like his. No shortcuts, no shutting you guys out, no running away and not facing my problems head on. That's a promise I'm making to myself-- and to you all too, right now.