[Sometimes, you make a decision because it feels right deep in your guts, and while you don't doubt it one bit you also wonder, why the fuck you made that decision you did. You get infected by the Endouism, the virus of Friendship and Compassion fails to leave you after a dozen god damn years, and suddenly you're back from playing pro in Europe to help the rude research some shady activity going on in Japan, camping on a sketchy island where a bunch of kids were being put through abusive soccer bootcamp, and then you're learning that most of these kids have absolutely nowhere to go or anyone to rely on after the island is shut down.
And then you're talking to Endou and Kidou who talk to Kiyama (Kira, or whatever) back in Tokyo and then it's 7PM in the evening as one of Kidou's drivers drop you off in front of your apartment with one of those island soccer players next to you like a stray cat you picked up in an alley on a rainy day. The kid -- Hakuryuu -- doesn't exactly resist as he leads him up to his third-floor apartment room, but Fudou has no doubts that the guy would rather be anywhere but here. Or perhaps he'd rather not be anywhere. He couldn't exactly blame him for feeling that way, if that were the case. He'd come out some literal hell, after all.
Fudou doesn't touch Hakuryuu. He speaks in brief sentences, suggestions and explanations rather than the commanding tone he tended to take with anybody else.
This isn't exactly immediately after the incident at the island. No, it's been a couple weeks since those days -- the island had to be shut down first, the children had to be put back into the system first, and Fudou had to work with Kiyama and the Sun Garden so that he wasn't just housing a teenage child illegally. What that meant was that it gave him time to prepare, so when the lights are turned on and the front door is closed behind them, he's able to turn to Hakuryuu and say,]
Use these. [A pair of indoor slippers is placed on the wooden floor in front of him.] You wanna take a bath or something? Did you even take a shower after you got to the mainland? I got you PJs.
so one day i adopted a dragon.
And then you're talking to Endou and Kidou who talk to Kiyama (Kira, or whatever) back in Tokyo and then it's 7PM in the evening as one of Kidou's drivers drop you off in front of your apartment with one of those island soccer players next to you like a stray cat you picked up in an alley on a rainy day. The kid -- Hakuryuu -- doesn't exactly resist as he leads him up to his third-floor apartment room, but Fudou has no doubts that the guy would rather be anywhere but here. Or perhaps he'd rather not be anywhere. He couldn't exactly blame him for feeling that way, if that were the case. He'd come out some literal hell, after all.
Fudou doesn't touch Hakuryuu. He speaks in brief sentences, suggestions and explanations rather than the commanding tone he tended to take with anybody else.
This isn't exactly immediately after the incident at the island. No, it's been a couple weeks since those days -- the island had to be shut down first, the children had to be put back into the system first, and Fudou had to work with Kiyama and the Sun Garden so that he wasn't just housing a teenage child illegally. What that meant was that it gave him time to prepare, so when the lights are turned on and the front door is closed behind them, he's able to turn to Hakuryuu and say,]
Use these. [A pair of indoor slippers is placed on the wooden floor in front of him.] You wanna take a bath or something? Did you even take a shower after you got to the mainland? I got you PJs.