I'm sorry, he says in silence. I knew what he did. To you. To others. It would have been the right thing to kill him. It would have been justified. It would have saved the rest of us, except that there aren't any of us left --
And he thinks of Orihime's eyes, so direct, so warm, and her belief in him.
But she doesn't think that I would be a killer, he finishes.
His tears are hot and shameful, and he doesn't know who he weeps for.
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