( hissing: ) Yes, I'm familiar with the concept, Trafalgar. Don't patronize me.
( the problem is: why didn't he tell me? (of course he didn't tell me.) why didn't i notice? (i should have noticed.) how could i be so stupid? ("i heard you're stupid, haha! mother and father have been saying so behind your back.")
logically, sabo knows it's not his fault. but isn't it, in some way? )
Is it — his Soul?
( because at least then he can blame patho-gen more than he blames himself. he's here this time and he's still — helpless, useless, incapable. ace is dying. not going to die. dying. which means: he's too late, again. )
Can you — slow it down? There has to be something we can do. I'm not — I won't let him die again.
[ but if he does, then he doesn't have to think about how powerless he is, in the face of whatever the hell in this place is causing it all — why would patho-gen imbue some of the augmented with a soul that will, inevitably, pull them towards death?
(because they don't care. because they don't care about them, not as people, individuals, not as anything except a resource that is easily replaceable, and it makes his blood boil —) ]
I believe so. When I examined him, his Soul... reacted.
[ he sighs. there is some real regret in it. ]
Revolutionary-ya. He's going to die. The best you can do is to try and be there for him. I can't imagine it's a pleasant thing to go through twice.
stalking down an alley, flames breaking out like a rash, his voice becoming more erratic: )
What the hell do you mean, it "reacted"?
Can't you — I don't know. Take it out of him? His Soul. You're a surgeon, aren't you?
( maybe law already tried. sabo thinks he should try again. and again. and again. until it works. what's the use of law's devil fruit if he can't even do the most important thing and save ace's life? )
His demeanour changed, [ comes the response, and then, almost without pause, ] Don't be rash about this.
[ he can hear it in sabo's voice, a kind of desperation, the kind that turns into rage and violence all too quickly. ]
Do you really think I wouldn't have done that already, if I could? The augmenter repels my powers. And trying to remove it otherwise... I believe it would only kill him faster.
But there are others who seem to share his soul type, who have died and then woken up again. If he dies, there is a high chance his soul will reawaken him. Clinically dead, functionally alive.
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I'm sure you're familiar with the concept.
[ just like he's about to be, after this response, ]
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( the problem is: why didn't he tell me? (of course he didn't tell me.) why didn't i notice? (i should have noticed.) how could i be so stupid? ("i heard you're stupid, haha! mother and father have been saying so behind your back.")
logically, sabo knows it's not his fault. but isn't it, in some way? )
Is it — his Soul?
( because at least then he can blame patho-gen more than he blames himself. he's here this time and he's still — helpless, useless, incapable. ace is dying. not going to die. dying. which means: he's too late, again. )
Can you — slow it down? There has to be something we can do. I'm not — I won't let him die again.
( bargaining thy name is sabo. )
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(because they don't care. because they don't care about them, not as people, individuals, not as anything except a resource that is easily replaceable, and it makes his blood boil —) ]
I believe so. When I examined him, his Soul... reacted.
[ he sighs. there is some real regret in it. ]
Revolutionary-ya. He's going to die. The best you can do is to try and be there for him. I can't imagine it's a pleasant thing to go through twice.
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stalking down an alley, flames breaking out like a rash, his voice becoming more erratic: )
What the hell do you mean, it "reacted"?
Can't you — I don't know. Take it out of him? His Soul. You're a surgeon, aren't you?
( maybe law already tried. sabo thinks he should try again. and again. and again. until it works. what's the use of law's devil fruit if he can't even do the most important thing and save ace's life? )
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[ he can hear it in sabo's voice, a kind of desperation, the kind that turns into rage and violence all too quickly. ]
Do you really think I wouldn't have done that already, if I could? The augmenter repels my powers. And trying to remove it otherwise... I believe it would only kill him faster.
But there are others who seem to share his soul type, who have died and then woken up again. If he dies, there is a high chance his soul will reawaken him. Clinically dead, functionally alive.