don't move, daisuke, mr. midnight is about to shoot the apple right off your poor little head... cowboy style.....
' wait --- ' okay , epiphany . facing down the hollow , black barrel of a gun with an apple on his head somehow felt better than waking up tied to some train tracks with mr. midnight twirling a comically large handlebar mustache next to his side . cool ! so now what was he supposed to do ?
at first breath it's hard for the niwa resist his trained instinct , that is : to chuck the apple elsewhere and get the hell out of the way , but when your surroundings were at the mercy of the sort of inconceivable entity that could transform a rope into a snake and a harmless apple into who-knows-what at first blink or whiff of disobedience , then you hedged your bets on trusting the cowboy and not the absent sheriff , that guy in all white who probably wouldn't have saved him anyways . right ?
' do i --- ' just bite the bullet , in one way or another ? daisuke knows the other's benevolent patience wouldn't last forever , so he grips his fists and shuts his eyes . squeezes them tight then pries just one open in a combination peek and wince . he's still . rabbit still . statue still . the muscles in his calves were perfectly trained and impressively obedient , despite his expression looking like it should have belonged to someone who'd go weak in the knees and collapse at any moment .
' ... do i get a line ? '
if he were any more like his daredevil , do-or-be-damned self , he's sure he wouldn't have hesitated to cheekily steal the gun's for himself : [ BANG !! ]