" I've known you for two seconds, but if anything happened to you, I'd kill everyone in this school and then myself. "
“I’m not worth that...” It comes out of the shorter boy’s mouth before his brain could catch up, and once realizing, he recoils instinctively. Backtrack, he’s gotta backtrack-
“Uh! I mean.... Th-Thank you.” Dumbass. “But could you not.... Can we leave out the ‘killing’, I’d rather you..... Live instead.” He has to force the words out, twisting his fist into the palm of his mitt, letting out some excess energy that had him shifting his weight from foot to foot. Gross, he could hear the cliché in his words but..
I’d kill everyone in this school and then myself. It’s meant as a funny, exaggerated way to show affection. Another way for Leon to say he’d do his best for Pitch’s sake. Why though? They just met. And Pitch respects Leon, he does, he views him as his role model and biggest rival (Perhaps not biggest, that spot is reserved for someone... closer.) but Pitch.... he’s not worth that same treatment.
They were both Ultimates and though he knew Leon wasn’t someone who was at all perfect, it still felt like there was a gap between them. Growing by the second. He had so much more time to perfect his skills, had a team back then and what did Pitch have-
The boy’s head lifts, a glowing, fake smile on his face. “I-I feel the same though!! I’d.....whatever you need-It’s on me!”