[Ryuji could smack that clueless look off Minato's face, and from the tensing of his arms and the pulling back of his lips into a grimace, the urge is there, stifled if only out of thought for the times they've shared and not wanting someone to walk in while he's knocking a sense of decency into the other boy.
It's gone beyond a joke now, or a comment made in the heat of the moment.]
Does Wonderland have you brainwashed? What it is is killin' people! Kids. Your friends. I ain't jokin' around with you--how the fuck can you stand there and say that don't upset you?
[It rattles him, this lack of... well, anything. The lack of even a flicker of indignation or will to turn inevitability on its head and fight.
It is what it is? How many times is going to hear this shit parroted at him?]
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It's gone beyond a joke now, or a comment made in the heat of the moment.]
Does Wonderland have you brainwashed? What it is is killin' people! Kids. Your friends. I ain't jokin' around with you--how the fuck can you stand there and say that don't upset you?
[It rattles him, this lack of... well, anything. The lack of even a flicker of indignation or will to turn inevitability on its head and fight.
It is what it is? How many times is going to hear this shit parroted at him?]
How can you just shrug it off?