It's not like I'm giving up, you brainless piece of garbage!! I'm getting insurance! Because if we lose, there is no one else who can even come close! And then? All your precious friends? They'll die! And their families will die! EVERYONE will die! If that doesn't scare the shit out of you even a little, you really are the biggest idiot!! [things are getting heated. Zangetsu moves to stand, to grab Ichigo and show him what for -- but when he stands, he grits his teeth in pain, clutching at his wound. He sits back down with a huff.
And when the Old Man says "enough", he takes a deep breath and looks down at his reflection in one of the windows]
... I do. I can't do the job that the Ringmaster has assigned to me without being out there, and she gave me the power to do so. If I don't work, then I don't get my wish, and all of this will be for nothing. [maybe he did make a mistake by doing this, by making this contract. But goddamn it, he wasn't going to give up on it! He would see it through to its end!
But... no. Had he known the Ringmaster had so many enemies and was such an unpopular character among her peers, he wouldn't have done this. No one's perfect.]
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And when the Old Man says "enough", he takes a deep breath and looks down at his reflection in one of the windows]
... I do. I can't do the job that the Ringmaster has assigned to me without being out there, and she gave me the power to do so. If I don't work, then I don't get my wish, and all of this will be for nothing. [maybe he did make a mistake by doing this, by making this contract. But goddamn it, he wasn't going to give up on it! He would see it through to its end!
But... no. Had he known the Ringmaster had so many enemies and was such an unpopular character among her peers, he wouldn't have done this. No one's perfect.]