O-oh... I... well. I'm glad I got to meet her, then...
[Though he hadn't spent much time thinking on it, if he'd been questioned before all this, Hajime would have said the number of robot faculty and students was a bit high. Thinking of it as them being the only people who could see or speak with you, though... it put the number in a severely different light.
If Zero's intention was to distract and reassure him, it was a bit misplaced. All Hajime had been doing was think about the operation, for days on end. The attempt at assuaging his guilt simply put him back into it, with the added distraction of foreign energy buzzing through and confusing him.]
I know... I should be happy. Things came out better than worse. This, this body, it's... it's a more than fair exchange, in the grand scheme of things.
I want to be happy, for the creatures we helped, for everyone who worked so hard and came out of it all right. I keep telling myself I ought to be. But I just keep going on feeling terrible. L-like everything everyone did wasn't good enough, and, and I'm too selfish to appreciate it.
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[Though he hadn't spent much time thinking on it, if he'd been questioned before all this, Hajime would have said the number of robot faculty and students was a bit high. Thinking of it as them being the only people who could see or speak with you, though... it put the number in a severely different light.
If Zero's intention was to distract and reassure him, it was a bit misplaced. All Hajime had been doing was think about the operation, for days on end. The attempt at assuaging his guilt simply put him back into it, with the added distraction of foreign energy buzzing through and confusing him.]
I know... I should be happy. Things came out better than worse. This, this body, it's... it's a more than fair exchange, in the grand scheme of things.
I want to be happy, for the creatures we helped, for everyone who worked so hard and came out of it all right. I keep telling myself I ought to be. But I just keep going on feeling terrible. L-like everything everyone did wasn't good enough, and, and I'm too selfish to appreciate it.