I know that you wouldn't force it. It's just--this isn't easy. I don't want to do it, but...
[Kakyoin trailed off, gaze dropping to their hands as he thought this over. He really, really didn't want to do this. But...he knew that there might someday be a point where he wouldn't have a choice. There could be a time in which they fought someone they couldn't defeat any other way, and if Dio ever turned into the threat they knew him as, Kakyoin didn't know what else he had that would stand a chance against that.]
[So if he had to practice it as he'd already resolved to try, and if there was no other option...what else were they supposed to do?]
[He closed his eyes and took a slow breath, trying to resign himself to the idea or at least determine how to go about it that was the least horrifying way possible.]
...if we're really going to do this--and you have to be absolutely certain that you're okay with it--I want to set a few conditions first.
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[Kakyoin trailed off, gaze dropping to their hands as he thought this over. He really, really didn't want to do this. But...he knew that there might someday be a point where he wouldn't have a choice. There could be a time in which they fought someone they couldn't defeat any other way, and if Dio ever turned into the threat they knew him as, Kakyoin didn't know what else he had that would stand a chance against that.]
[So if he had to practice it as he'd already resolved to try, and if there was no other option...what else were they supposed to do?]
[He closed his eyes and took a slow breath, trying to resign himself to the idea or at least determine how to go about it that was the least horrifying way possible.]
...if we're really going to do this--and you have to be absolutely certain that you're okay with it--I want to set a few conditions first.