451 Episode 85 - The Final Wall (3)

What the 'Secretive Plotter' said felt as hollow as words coming from someone who had lost all meaning in his life.

I spoke up as if to rebel against that hollowness. "....Your life saved someone else's."

To someone who had lost so much, the truth of saving a kid whom he didn't even know the name of wouldn't be much of a consolation. The boy was someone completely unrelated to him, after all. That boy was not his comrade or his family member.

I tried to open my lips several times, yet I still couldn't say anything else. The life I lived was no help whatsoever in the quest to save this guy.

The 'Secretive Plotter' looked at me struggling and spoke. [[When I first saw you, I believed that I needed to bring you under my wings.]]

Bring me under his wings. For some reason, I recalled the moments I first encountered him.

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