...You're a better man than you want to give yourself credit for, Ryouma.
[because, she thinks, that some sounds an awful lot like I.]
I think you deserve much more than you allow yourself to have.
[and she says it because she believes it, with all of herself. because a man doesn't do all the things he's doing, stubborn and putting himself on the line, willing to bleed out for it, without something fueling him. and it's the duty of those around him, those he lets near, to make sure that fire doesn't lose its fuel, and consume him instead.]
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[because, she thinks, that some sounds an awful lot like I.]
I think you deserve much more than you allow yourself to have.
[and she says it because she believes it, with all of herself. because a man doesn't do all the things he's doing, stubborn and putting himself on the line, willing to bleed out for it, without something fueling him. and it's the duty of those around him, those he lets near, to make sure that fire doesn't lose its fuel, and consume him instead.]