[ should it have been earlier in the year or if tatsuma was just a friend, souji might not have said anything. he had a bad habit of bottling things up, refusing to show any sides of weakness or to let others worry about him. he's been getting much better at it these days, after being told countless times that he's doing no one any favours but himself but it's still hard. to go for years upon years of handling things on his own, he still has troubles opening up but this is tatsuma. in a relationship, they shouldn't hide things, right? and tatsuma has been one of the only people he could open up to, with the things about moving constantly and how he never had any friends before recolle, so this shouldn't be something that he should hide from him. ]

[ so he admits it, his fingers still gently over the healed scar ]

A friend of mine was practising his new fire powers. It was going well at first but he eventually lost control and he hit me. Of course, it was an accident and Yu was nearby to heal me right after, but even our Personas have limits so the scar remained since that day.