âStaying didnât help, neither did leaving. If I didnât leave, there was the possibility that I, too, would turn into something dark. I couldnât chance that.â He could not wrap his head around Suzakuâs words and feelings. Then again, he knew that she was not involved in the original situation. It was just him and Rei.
Suzaku lowered her gaze in thought, Byakkoâs words did not make sense too her. âWhy do you obsess with what is dark and what is not?â She asks in a low tone.
âEven the most pure human has darkness within them, even the most foul human, has a speck of light. Is the same not true of us? We are not pure light, for millennia we were weapons of war, and protectors of our chosen, and whoever they pleased to protect.â
"We have very different perspectives, don't we, Suzaku? Rei doesn't need me around. I'm not the one capable of helping him." The other spirit wasn't wrong, but he knew all too well how easily darkness could take someone.















