devoraetus:
❝.. not so bad, is it.❞ now that sho has his head on straight, ragna crosses his arms.. he’s mentioned celica and that’s a key player to making them both less anxious. if she catches them both fighting each other, she’s going to be sorely disappointed in them both. the reaper is almost sure that sho isn’t looking for something like that as he seems to know her more than he realizes.. with a small sigh, he allows the scarred youth to continue .. so he’s talking about hazama .. or rather, terumi.
HE ISN’T sure how to explain, nor does he want to shove his trust into sho’s hands. hardly knowing him makes it difficult, and as much as he’d like to trust celica’s judgement of character… she isn’t the best model for taking word for people and their intentions. after all, she tries to find the good in every persona.. he can’t just blindly accept it for what it is and at first glance.
❝There’s two of those guys in the city, one of them is Hazama.. the guy you mentioned. The other one’s Terumi. Long, orange coat, same hair color but it stands up, y’know? He’s the loud one. You’ll be able to tell the difference at a glance.❞ even after mentioning this, he can’t exactly believe it himself.. two of them in the city, separated and able to make their own individual choices in two separate bodies.. that means twice the trouble and more than it’s worth. they can overpower him with little to no effort together. after all, he’s just one person. glancing down at his right arm briefly, ragna narrows his eyes at the next part of the inquiry. heterochromatic eyes rove over to meet sho’s in a more serious light than previously. ❝.. I can’t just tell you, I gotta know why you’re on a need-to-know basis. It’s gotten me into a lot of shit I didn’t wanna be part of… so? What’s the reason, Sho? Why do you want to know about this ‘darkness’ you’re feeling?❞
“Two of them? Well I’ve only ever seen the one to start with, but I’ll keep an eye out.”
Two potential enemies to be concerned about? Just great. As though it wasn’t difficult already to keep his nose clean in this place, now more problems showed up on his horizon. From what he knew as well, there were already conflicts with Hazama elsewhere, but this other guy, Terumi, was surprisingly off his radar so far. Considering Ragna had referred to him as the “Loud” one, there had to be something amiss if he had heard more of the other. Then again, this was also mostly due to Sho’s ties to Roman Torchwick, which was another story..
Even the irritable youth knew that he couldn’t really argue with Ragna’s inquiry, for he would likely do the same thing. It brought Sho back to the point of why he sought the white-haired male in the first place; Celica. He didn’t even know what they were at this point, whether or not they were even friends at this point, or if he was even worth being a friend to anymore. Yet, even with that dread hanging over his head, he knew what the answer was, and he couldn’t deny it, aloud or to himself.
“Because I need to know if they could - or have - hurt Celica. I’m not gonna allow that, no matter what the cost.”
