[It's said with no outward emotion, but there's definitely spite behind it. He won't let himself get angry, but a little cold reality is fair.
He knows the way he's headed. He used to think he was looking at another few decades of slow descent into liver failure, but that's changed. Since the day Kirei told him he had a "violent expiration date", he's gradually become aware that that assessment is accurate. He's living right now because he can't give up on Shinji. He's already given up on any other dream of something worth holding onto.
Maybe Kariya won't take him seriously. Maybe he won't care if he does -- and why should he? But Byakuya hopes that it strikes Kariya that the boy who held his hand when he could barely toddle and stubbornly walked ahead of him has turned into a man who stands alone so far behind he's very nearly disappeared from view.]
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[It's said with no outward emotion, but there's definitely spite behind it. He won't let himself get angry, but a little cold reality is fair.
He knows the way he's headed. He used to think he was looking at another few decades of slow descent into liver failure, but that's changed. Since the day Kirei told him he had a "violent expiration date", he's gradually become aware that that assessment is accurate. He's living right now because he can't give up on Shinji. He's already given up on any other dream of something worth holding onto.
Maybe Kariya won't take him seriously. Maybe he won't care if he does -- and why should he? But Byakuya hopes that it strikes Kariya that the boy who held his hand when he could barely toddle and stubbornly walked ahead of him has turned into a man who stands alone so far behind he's very nearly disappeared from view.]