... Even though I was the reason he couldn't live in the first place.
[It seems like such a contradiction, and she has a hard time wrapping her mind around it. Even after he said as much himself, there's something grounding yet frightening to hear it from another person, to know that 9S was distressed enough to truly show it rather than keep it to himself as he tends to do.]
There's so much more he could live for though. Here, especially. [In a place where not only could they fulfill their purpose, but where others already cared for him so deeply? Surely there was something better to live for than his killer.]
GRIPS YOUR SHOULDERS it's okay!!
[It seems like such a contradiction, and she has a hard time wrapping her mind around it. Even after he said as much himself, there's something grounding yet frightening to hear it from another person, to know that 9S was distressed enough to truly show it rather than keep it to himself as he tends to do.]
There's so much more he could live for though. Here, especially. [In a place where not only could they fulfill their purpose, but where others already cared for him so deeply? Surely there was something better to live for than his killer.]