He does catch on, in the spells of silence inbetween his informing Shuuhei, and Shuuhei actually answering him, that the information is upsetting to the brunet. That is the normal response, so Izuru does not begrudge him that. The brunet, as often, goes into problem-solving mode. No doubt his solution involves offering up many of his own years. Izuru shakes his head. "I already spoke to Akon. They've already explored every possible course of action. 'nothing we can do' were his exact words." Izuru shrugs. He hadn't fought Akon on that, of course.
"He thought they'd have five centuries at most, but since they're not fully shinigami, he couldn't be sure.." Their hollows were a.. Volatile factor.
Shuuhei's next question comes as a bit of a surprise. His friend has not recently attempted to ask him about anything to do with feelings. Izuru had assumed he's given up on him in that regard. But.. Surprisingly, this news had pissed him off. He'd actually confronted Rose about it a little while ago. "He lied to me." By omission, but still. "I was angry with him for that." But underlying that anger had been something else. It made him uneasy to think of a world he'd be living in for millennia to come; without Rose in it.
Still.. Nothing he could do about it, so it served him much better to plan for the future. He half-shrugs "He'll die and I'll be here forever," that should upset him, of course "I'm not thrilled."
Shuuhei visibly deflates with Izuru's response of finality — of futility. He doesn't want to blame Akon, after all that their comrade has done already to get those who had been reduced to zombies to where they currently are, but… still, it's frustrating. Frustrating beyond belief. There are a thousand "impossible" things that the Twelfth Division can pull off, and this just has to be the one exception? Hell, that Izuru is walking and talking should be one of those impossibilities, and yet!
Thinking of Izuru, Shuuhei is… well, glad that he had asked about how Izuru had felt about this. He knows he has been guilty of distance from his longtime friend due to the unsettling nature of his new circumstances. It seems all the more clear in this moment that Shuuhei had made selfish assumptions about Izuru's capacities for emotion in his somewhat-undead state of being. He's glad that Izuru had been able to get angry about this. Izuru who, by his own declaration, seems doomed to a converse but little better fate: to outlive everyone he knows, to exist long past will or wishes until perhaps some future scientist can figure out how to grant him peace.
Only in his own small way, Shuuhei does empathize with that outlook. He's already outlived so many people dear to him, and he also, to an extent, has not been given permission to die. He still wishes it had been himself hit with Bazz B's attack rather than Izuru, since he would have survived it, given the evidence from his later injury from Lille Barro.
"And… what's Rose-san's stance on all this? Is he just resigned to it?" Maybe it would be best to discuss this with Rose first, if he's already been confronted by Izuru. Maybe that way Shuuhei is less likely to say something he may regret when he would then talk to Kensei. As much as Shuuhei can't picture his captain (his lover) giving up a fight, if all Shuuhei would do is reopen a wound that Kensei has been trying to bandage in private, then… he might push Kensei away rather than draw him closer by bringing up the subject.
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