Rinku winces. This time, even with MK putting his arm around her, she doesn't bounce back or smile. She just stuffs the cookies back into her pocket and looks down.
Maybe that's how it always is with Eve. Everything she tries, everything she suggests, everything she just innocently says, it always makes her yell or snap or tell her to knock it off because she's hurting her. Why? How? Every single time, and she's kept trying, kept being positive, but...
Optimism's good, but sometimes...
...think of it like going from a dark room to outside when it's really sunny. It makes your eyes hurt, right? Sometimes positivity is like that if you've had a bad time.
"It... hurts to try to be happy, doesn't it?"
She doesn't understand. She doesn't understand any of it. Not Eve getting upset with her again and again, not MK trying to burn his own dreams. She almost turns to go.
...No. She can't. If MK's doing everything he can, she will, too.
"I don't want anyone getting hurt. MK-san's right about wanting to help. I don't know what'd happen if someone else tried to heal me..." Or what he's talking about bottles for, but she'll ask about that later. "But what you're saying is the stuff down here is stuff you're already working on, so we can't do it. And you can't... have something happy in here, because it'll just turn into something bad. Right?"
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Maybe that's how it always is with Eve. Everything she tries, everything she suggests, everything she just innocently says, it always makes her yell or snap or tell her to knock it off because she's hurting her. Why? How? Every single time, and she's kept trying, kept being positive, but...
Optimism's good, but sometimes...
...think of it like going from a dark room to outside when it's really sunny. It makes your eyes hurt, right? Sometimes positivity is like that if you've had a bad time.
"It... hurts to try to be happy, doesn't it?"
She doesn't understand. She doesn't understand any of it. Not Eve getting upset with her again and again, not MK trying to burn his own dreams. She almost turns to go.
...No. She can't. If MK's doing everything he can, she will, too.
"I don't want anyone getting hurt. MK-san's right about wanting to help. I don't know what'd happen if someone else tried to heal me..." Or what he's talking about bottles for, but she'll ask about that later. "But what you're saying is the stuff down here is stuff you're already working on, so we can't do it. And you can't... have something happy in here, because it'll just turn into something bad. Right?"