[It's all making sense. He's not someone who thinks in strategy, he thinks in terms of what feels right--and this grim realization feels right, from the ripple through Vanitas' fierce demeanor, to Vanitas protecting him from something rather than protecting something from him as he's been used to all his life...
Confirmation of the truth only lends weight to the conclusion. For all his strange power, this darkly dangerous boy fought and lost, and he doesn't want the rest of them charging headlong into battle with this new spirit.
Now's no time for pity, if he were even liable to offer pity for the no doubt painful death that had left Vanitas in the jumpy state he'd been in when they'd crossed paths in the church. He cocks his head, taking the warning into serious consideration even as a table splinters behind him with an explosive crack as a frenzied spirit barrels into it. There is a time for strategy, and now... might be it.]
You think I'm not strong enough to beat it?
[Never mind that Vanitas has never seen him use his power but briefly. The question has the obstinance of a challenge to it--but if he wasn't asking for some manner of honest assessment, he would've already bowled his way past.]
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[It's all making sense. He's not someone who thinks in strategy, he thinks in terms of what feels right--and this grim realization feels right, from the ripple through Vanitas' fierce demeanor, to Vanitas protecting him from something rather than protecting something from him as he's been used to all his life...
Confirmation of the truth only lends weight to the conclusion. For all his strange power, this darkly dangerous boy fought and lost, and he doesn't want the rest of them charging headlong into battle with this new spirit.
Now's no time for pity, if he were even liable to offer pity for the no doubt painful death that had left Vanitas in the jumpy state he'd been in when they'd crossed paths in the church. He cocks his head, taking the warning into serious consideration even as a table splinters behind him with an explosive crack as a frenzied spirit barrels into it. There is a time for strategy, and now... might be it.]
You think I'm not strong enough to beat it?
[Never mind that Vanitas has never seen him use his power but briefly. The question has the obstinance of a challenge to it--but if he wasn't asking for some manner of honest assessment, he would've already bowled his way past.]