❛ maybe life isn’t about counting all the mistakes you made. maybe it’s about increasing the number of important things in it instead. ❜
✰ // NOT ACCEPTING !!━━━━━━ ( @ofswordism )
He hums in approval --- with slight hesitation, yes, but those words of her still speak wisdom he cannot deny.
“Perhaps.”
“This is part of the reason why we created Crime Sorcière, I’d say.”
“As much as we long for cleaning our names, it’s not --- a ‘dream’ I would consider attainable. History books will classify us as nothing but criminals nonetheless. My... past still stain my hands like ink or blood I pain to rub away. I don’t---” his voice drops to a whisper:
“I don’t think I’ll ever be clean.”
“However...”
“I do appreciate the opportunity I was given. To be out in the open, helping out the law and assuring the security of the society instead of rotting behind PRISON BARS.”
“Maybe my good deeds will never outweight my sins --- but it is satisfying, in a certain way, that I won’t leave this world without the knowledge that I’ve at least done my best to pay some kind of penance --- by chasing a bit of its darkness away.”
