[ at the sound of her words, at the sound of “you can’t stop him”, his hands tighten, gripping each other so hard that his knuckles go white. there’s truth in what she says, he can’t be there with tatsuma forever but to think that tatsuma might possibly go out and get into another altercation like this without souji around to help, for him to heal him when he gets himself hurt again, it terrifies him ]

But what can I do more than just listen? How do I convince him not to go out and do those things? I don’t want to come back home and find him gone, to know that he left, and might be off nearly getting himself hurt and I’m not there to help him to take him to the hospital that time.