[He keeps patting her back until she can't get any more water out of her lungs or stomach, then he rubs it instead to comfort her. It's scary to feel her so utterly slack in his arms, unable to sit up on her own or so much as lift a finger. He tells himself that she'll be OK, that it's just a temporary status effect, but it's terrifying.]
Hey, take it easy. Just breathe.
[His senses are alert to their surroundings, knowing he needs to stand in for Mukuro on that front now, so he only registers what she was trying to say with a second's delay. Did she just try to apologise..? Still under Junko's thrall, aren't you?]
Don't apologise for saving my life.
[He can't compute that what she'd really need to be told is "Don't apologise for surviving." Even talking about her struggles with Jean and Makoto, he still doesn't fully grasp the depths of her despair.]
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Hey, take it easy. Just breathe.
[His senses are alert to their surroundings, knowing he needs to stand in for Mukuro on that front now, so he only registers what she was trying to say with a second's delay. Did she just try to apologise..? Still under Junko's thrall, aren't you?]
Don't apologise for saving my life.
[He can't compute that what she'd really need to be told is "Don't apologise for surviving." Even talking about her struggles with Jean and Makoto, he still doesn't fully grasp the depths of her despair.]