âOkay, point,â Lea says with a chuckle. âThey are for hitting. Justâ ow, not me, okay? I got beat up with blunt objects enough this past year.â How many Keyblades have smacked him in the face at this point? Way too many. They didnât even kill him, and still, way too many.
âI know that,â he says, his face going serious. âI wouldnât want âem to forget.â He doesnât want to go into his whole âmemories are importantâ spiel, mostly because itâll be annoying, but yeah. Heâs still uncomfortable about Sora forgetting CO, even if itâs also kind of a good thing. But still, other people remember it, so they can hold Axel accountable.
How does he even explain himself? He pauses and lets out a short, awkward laugh. âDidnât think Iâd get this far,â he admits. âI, uhââ
Sigh. âI know Iâve done a lot of crappy things, andâ anything I say to explain itâs no excuse, butâŠâ He gestures vaguely. âBeing forced into a creepy cult at fifteen and being stuck there for ten years does a number on anyone.â Best way to explain it. âSora helped me out, and now IâmâŠreturning the favor, I guess, and trying to make up for the stuff I did before that. I owe him a lot, and I justâŠI dunno.â He laughs. âAnything else I say is gonna get sappy and sentimental real fast, and I donât know if you wanna hear that.â
hayner only lets out a breath that holds a semblance of a chuckle, but he doesnât allow it to get much further than that. âif you thought you wouldnât get that far, how do you think i feel?â he shouldnât give this guy a chance to even speak or defend himself, but heâs in a good enough mood where maybe he feels like listening. if he starts to say something that sounds like bullshit, hayner can always cut him off and tell him heâs full of shit.Â
itâs fine. thisâll be fine.
and for the most part he listens; eyes on leaâs face, arms crossed over his chest with the bat dangling from one of his hands like he means business. admitting that heâs done crappy things, check. reasoning (even though thereâs no way hayner can check if itâs true or not), check. but sora, well, he can believe the thing about sora. the dudeâs light and bright like the sun, nice enough that even hayner can pick that up from the small instance he knew him.
yeah, thatâs one thing he can believe.
âwhat exactly did sora help you do?â