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[book2thehead]

[Oh.]

What happened?

[empyrean_mirror]

the ruins nearly drowned him.

the condition for opening the doors was my honesty.

[Oh no.]

[book2thehead]

[Ah. He can see where this is going. These two are so damn stubborn.]

I encountered doors like that in the maze. As I recall it required two people to speak honestly, one on each side.

[empyrean_mirror]

we ran into those too. this puzzle...

all I could do was watch.

[book2thehead]

I'm so sorry, Kaveh.

I know you have a hard time expressing yourself honestly when it comes to Alhaitham. But you shouldn't be so hard on yourself. Being completely honest like that to someone so important can be terrifying.

[empyrean_mirror]

but if I had been faster...he wouldn't have been anything but damp.

[book2thehead]

Is he upset with you about it at all?

[empyrean_mirror]

just because he's not upset doesn't mean it wouldn't have been my fault.

[book2thehead]

If he isn't upset and you both were able to come home, then it doesn't matter if it "would" have been your fault. It didn't happen that way.

What were you afraid of, in that moment? What stopped you from acting more quickly?

[empyrean_mirror]

it asked me for secrets. and I was running out of them, to be honest.

Even the ones I had...the water rose faster than it drained.

[book2thehead]

So it wanted your biggest secrets, but you tried for your smaller ones first hoping to be able to keep them?

[empyrean_mirror]

...yes. On the first couple doors it worked, but...

[and he's ashamed of that, now.]

[book2thehead]

It makes sense that the further you went, the more the ruins would ask of you. And it makes sense you would want to save yourself from exposing something you can't take back. There's nothing wrong with that. You don't have to blame yourself so much for it.

[empyrean_mirror]

he should not have suffered the consequences of my cowardice, Heizou.

[book2thehead]

Were your positions reversed and he did the exact same thing, would you want him to feel the same way you are now?

[empyrean_mirror]

he'd have never have hesitated in the first place.

But it should have been me down there anyway.

[book2thehead]

That's not what I asked, Kaveh-senpai.

Please answer my question properly.

[empyrean_mirror]

it would have been better if it had happened to me.

[book2thehead]

It would not have.

And you're still avoiding my question. Would you want Alhaitham to blame himself for something he didn't actually do?

[empyrean_mirror]

of course not.

that's hardly the same thing, though. the comparison is too different.

[book2thehead]

Is it? Enlighten me, then.

[empyrean_mirror]

he didn't deserve it.

[book2thehead]

Why do you deserve it more than him?

[empyrean_mirror]

for all his flaws...his failures have never really harmed anyone.

[book2thehead]

And yet you're saying that were your positions reversed, you would have preferred he let you die. Is that not a failure that would have harmed someone? Someone he deeply cares about, for that matter?