[Hijikata, who was about to really let loose, scream and shout in upset and frustration, goes abruptly silent when he notices the change like everybody else.]
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Okay, I guess you didn't blow it.
[Inappropriately flippant as his statement sounds, internally he's despairing. They saved this world, but at what cost?! Countless people died horrible deaths, not to mention the global damage wrought on the environment. Will it even be able to recover? What's more, Darin and Mukuro and others he recognised from Avalon were in that crowd..!!
Breathe, Toshirou. It's only a dream. But something tells him without the slightest uncertainty that this did happen - far away, on Emet-Selch's homeworld. Much as he tries to tell himself that it's only a manifestation of unfulfilled fears and worries, it all felt much too real for that - the heat, the stench, the rumbling and cracking and shaking of the dying world that may just barely have been preserved now. He feels numb and simply stands there for a moment, unable to process what happened on an emotional level.]
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Okay, I guess you didn't blow it.
[Inappropriately flippant as his statement sounds, internally he's despairing. They saved this world, but at what cost?! Countless people died horrible deaths, not to mention the global damage wrought on the environment. Will it even be able to recover? What's more, Darin and Mukuro and others he recognised from Avalon were in that crowd..!!
Breathe, Toshirou. It's only a dream. But something tells him without the slightest uncertainty that this did happen - far away, on Emet-Selch's homeworld. Much as he tries to tell himself that it's only a manifestation of unfulfilled fears and worries, it all felt much too real for that - the heat, the stench, the rumbling and cracking and shaking of the dying world that may just barely have been preserved now. He feels numb and simply stands there for a moment, unable to process what happened on an emotional level.]