They're still so stupid. You can't do anything if you're dead. If you want to save someone, you have to keep on living... find a way for everybody to live. Deciding that you're going to die so somebody else doesn't have to is the same as giving up.
[ Other people can be stupid, what does he care. But Datz had better not: if he had to choose between Datz and everybody on all the other teams, he'd choose to save Datz every time ]
Hey, I'm not planning to, OK? I mean, if a bomb went off, I can't say I wouldn't just shield somebody I cared about on instinct, but short of that, I've got no intention of leaving you and Ruty. I'm not volunteering to be anyone's victim and I'm not gonna ask people to vote for me.
[ only if i needed to to keep them from voting for you. ]
Yeah. We're gonna treat every day until that Halloween store closes like it's potentially his birthday, so anything that'd hurt him's strictly off limits.
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They're still so stupid. You can't do anything if you're dead. If you want to save someone, you have to keep on living... find a way for everybody to live. Deciding that you're going to die so somebody else doesn't have to is the same as giving up.
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[ the thought here is a quote from somebody else: no, because I wouldn't be much use to my clients dead. ]
But the circumstances don't always allow for that. Sometimes you gotta act fast and there's just no time to find a way to save everybody and yourself.
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[ Other people can be stupid, what does he care. But Datz had better not: if he had to choose between Datz and everybody on all the other teams, he'd choose to save Datz every time ]
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[ only if i needed to to keep them from voting for you. ]
So you've got nothing to worry about.
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[ he leans over and gives Datz a side hug ]
If anything happened to you, Ryuki would be so sad. You can't do that to him on his birthday.
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Yeah. We're gonna treat every day until that Halloween store closes like it's potentially his birthday, so anything that'd hurt him's strictly off limits.