[and he might have tipped his hand a little with that one, because it sounded a lot more I don't want anyone to suffer like I did.
monika might be getting huffy all over again but it doesn't seem to faze kaiba, who continues to regard her seriously. he wanted the real monika so this was what he got, all nastiness and loneliness and thinly veiled malice. it's like the coffee shop all over again. he even half expects a hot latte in the face, ridiculously as that may have been.
but this was the real monika. this was the truth. so it's preferable to anything else.]
Weren't you alone just now? Reading your dumb books, but still.
[more delicately, he adds:]
You looked better than normal, better than okay. You looked happy.
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I don't want anyone to be like me.
[and he might have tipped his hand a little with that one, because it sounded a lot more I don't want anyone to suffer like I did.
monika might be getting huffy all over again but it doesn't seem to faze kaiba, who continues to regard her seriously. he wanted the real monika so this was what he got, all nastiness and loneliness and thinly veiled malice. it's like the coffee shop all over again. he even half expects a hot latte in the face, ridiculously as that may have been.
but this was the real monika. this was the truth. so it's preferable to anything else.]
Weren't you alone just now? Reading your dumb books, but still.
[more delicately, he adds:]
You looked better than normal, better than okay. You looked happy.