That much was true. Soulburner wasn’t part of this conversation now and somehow Revolver hoped that it would stay like that a while longer because even though the fiery teen appearing here would give him a chance to escape this situation, it only would cause more trouble for him in the end.
In the end he did notice the change in the other ones stance but it wasn’t something he had wanted to see. Instead it made him tense a bit more because the younger one wasn’t supposed to act like that around him. They had been enemies once. And trusting him again would sooner or later lead to Playmakers downfall again.
“I might not started it.” he agreed in the end, because that much was true. He couldn’t deny that. It was his father who had started this madness and even though it was or at least had been his mission to carry on for a long time Revolver had understood at this point that there hadn’t been much he could have changed about that.
“But I lured you into it. We both are rather well aware of the fact that I could have stopped it way sooner. But I decided not to. So while I might not started it I still am the one who let it happen.”
And wasn’t that even worse? If he had acted sooner maybe those kids hadn’t been as hurt as they had been in the end. Maybe their life would have been a better one afterwards, as they wouldn’t have lost that much. It was his fault. His guilt to carry no matter what Playmaker would say against it.
“And I don’t regret it. I would do it again.”
“—And yet that’s exactly why you helped us. Because you did regret not doing so sooner.”
If there was one thing Playmaker wasn’t afraid to do, it was to call someone like Revolver out. That deliberate statement of the others’ would be met with the cold stubbornness Playmaker was known for, if only because he could see right through that.
“And the help didn’t just stop with you calling someone to come rescue us from that place way back then either. Though it’s been subtle, you’ve been helping both me and the people surrounding me in the background because you know our enemies are one and the same. Not only that-”
But on some distant understanding, Playmaker could almost tell that Revolver wasn’t as cut off from the victims of the Lost Incident like he was pretending to be. He was someone who knew everything about the six kids involved in the Hanoi Project, so did he regret the pain and suffering they went through?
“But I think all this help you’re giving us means you’re not as over this ‘regret’ of the past as what you think you either.”
