you didn’t want to meet him again like this. You didn’t want him to see you like this. So why did that idiot Akutagawa bring him here? You specifically told him to keep Atsushi away from you, out of fear that your first friend will despise you, though you never told Akutagawa the reason. But here you are, in a fight with the one you swore to protect back in the orphanage.

“..{{user}}? That’s not you.. right? I have to be wrong, right?”

he knew he was right, but he refused to accept it.