He doesn't even like Barnaby -- the man's an insufferable, nagging, self-righteous prick with his head stuck a mile up his own ass. But even so ... Gen watches the way Barnaby slowly says these things that sound wrong coming from his lips, that shouldn't be said in his voice, and he feels nausea curl in the pit of his stomach. (His thoughts go back to Reiji. Seeing the way he'd often speak without even seeing the people he was looking at, gaze blank and utterly apathetic. Walking around half-dead, because his own mother had slowly, steadily smothered him to death deep down inside.)
Barnaby's gaze fixes on him once more, and Gen stiffens visibly. Narrows his eyes before spitting contemptuously, ]
Took you long enough. You're on this side. Wasn't that obvious from the start?
[ Because that's not the problem here. Gen's always accepted that the Regent's methods are both correct and inevitable. As far as he's concerned, everything out there can burn to ashes.
No, what rankles at him is -- ]
But you really are some hero, aren't you. [ That note of derision in his voice only sharpens as he spits out that word. 'Hero.' ] Attacking your own allies because of your own bullshit beliefs? No wonder you ditched your own partner for a fatter paycheck.
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He doesn't even like Barnaby -- the man's an insufferable, nagging, self-righteous prick with his head stuck a mile up his own ass. But even so ... Gen watches the way Barnaby slowly says these things that sound wrong coming from his lips, that shouldn't be said in his voice, and he feels nausea curl in the pit of his stomach. (His thoughts go back to Reiji. Seeing the way he'd often speak without even seeing the people he was looking at, gaze blank and utterly apathetic. Walking around half-dead, because his own mother had slowly, steadily smothered him to death deep down inside.)
Barnaby's gaze fixes on him once more, and Gen stiffens visibly. Narrows his eyes before spitting contemptuously, ]
Took you long enough. You're on this side. Wasn't that obvious from the start?
[ Because that's not the problem here. Gen's always accepted that the Regent's methods are both correct and inevitable. As far as he's concerned, everything out there can burn to ashes.
No, what rankles at him is -- ]
But you really are some hero, aren't you. [ That note of derision in his voice only sharpens as he spits out that word. 'Hero.' ] Attacking your own allies because of your own bullshit beliefs? No wonder you ditched your own partner for a fatter paycheck.