Even if it's something small, like reading a book to you or making you something to eat, or even just sitting around with you for a while. Just tell me and I'll do it.
[Like the thought of a memorial. He is on board with that.]
If anything of his appears in the alley, we could write messages to him maybe.
[Little things like that are easy to handle, at least. Simple, small little things that make the hurt stand out just a little less.]
But yeah, I think we could. Some of us were thinking of cleaning up the alley a little and trying to make it a nicer place to use as, like - a place of remembrance.
[He still doesn't want to ascribe to the theory that it's a malevolent entity, after all. Not with the way the residents had described it to him, being so sword-like in its nature.]
We'll make it a nice place to visit. Or as nice as we can, anyway.
You know, someone said that the places that keep showing up are connected to the people here. Maybe if we think about it enough, a proper place to remember people will show up too.
[It's a sad thought in that they have to consider it at all, but something of a comfort, too - to think that they might be able to properly honor the ones who have died.]
...Maybe, yeah. I think that'd be good. We'll do the best with what we have for now, but I don't want their souls to-- not be at ease or something, you know?
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[Like the thought of a memorial. He is on board with that.]
If anything of his appears in the alley, we could write messages to him maybe.
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[Little things like that are easy to handle, at least. Simple, small little things that make the hurt stand out just a little less.]
But yeah, I think we could. Some of us were thinking of cleaning up the alley a little and trying to make it a nicer place to use as, like - a place of remembrance.
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[He still doesn't want to ascribe to the theory that it's a malevolent entity, after all. Not with the way the residents had described it to him, being so sword-like in its nature.]
We'll make it a nice place to visit. Or as nice as we can, anyway.
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...Maybe, yeah. I think that'd be good. We'll do the best with what we have for now, but I don't want their souls to-- not be at ease or something, you know?
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[Whatever that means, at least. Atsushi isn't particularly religious, so he has no baseline for 'what comes after'.]
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Yeah. We'll do our best - together.