[mmm. that last part especially doesn't sit right with her. that's not who shenhe is.]

I do feel like that's the narrative now. Me and Haru are - well, not heroes, but brave little kids who did something noble. But stories aren't usually good at capturing nuance.

You're not a monster. Not like that, not like you're saying. And we didn't kill you to defeat something bad. We killed you because we decided to be monsters and we wanted to be the strongest ones, the ones who won. [they didn't even know about saving other teams, when shenhe died.] And maybe Gerard did want to protect me, but it's not like you had to die for me to be protected. He could have killed, like, Mizuki to protect me, and it would have been the same result. I just kind of forced his hand, because I was so sure of the way things had to be.