Something snaps in Hiroshi's head. "Would you all just SHUT UP ALREADY?!"
He breathes heavily. "Talking all casually like this! Acting like the one goddamn hope in Hell we have of getting rid of those things is bad! What's wrong with you all?! Don't you understand?! These things aren't supposed to exist!"
It's like a floodgate has broken as he speaks. "They're supposed to be fake! Stupid scare tactics you use to freak out other teenagers, or maybe cop a feel with a girlfriend or something! They're not supposed to be real! We weren't supposed to actually SEE them! They're not supposed to run around killing people!"
He gestures wildly at the town. "But look! Now they're running all over, and making a mess of things, and turning them INTO them! How could this method be wrong?! This has to be it! It HAS to! It's only because they exist that everybody had to DIE! Everybody! Mika, Takeshi, Takuro, everybody! They all died because of them, and then they BECAME them! Those... THINGS need to STOP BEING HERE! I just want..."
He begins to slump. "I just... I just want them out of my fucking LIFE..."
He uses the shaft of the Rod as a prop, his energy spent, his body convulsing as he begins to emit huge, heaving sobs. It was a lie. It had to be...
In which the thread isn't the only thing that breaks.
He breathes heavily. "Talking all casually like this! Acting like the one goddamn hope in Hell we have of getting rid of those things is bad! What's wrong with you all?! Don't you understand?! These things aren't supposed to exist!"
It's like a floodgate has broken as he speaks. "They're supposed to be fake! Stupid scare tactics you use to freak out other teenagers, or maybe cop a feel with a girlfriend or something! They're not supposed to be real! We weren't supposed to actually SEE them! They're not supposed to run around killing people!"
He gestures wildly at the town. "But look! Now they're running all over, and making a mess of things, and turning them INTO them! How could this method be wrong?! This has to be it! It HAS to! It's only because they exist that everybody had to DIE! Everybody! Mika, Takeshi, Takuro, everybody! They all died because of them, and then they BECAME them! Those... THINGS need to STOP BEING HERE! I just want..."
He begins to slump. "I just... I just want them out of my fucking LIFE..."
He uses the shaft of the Rod as a prop, his energy spent, his body convulsing as he begins to emit huge, heaving sobs. It was a lie. It had to be...