[The syndrome... The syndrome? The Hinamizawa syndrome...
If you see a dot at the wall and hate bugs you will think it's a bug. It's the same with Satoko, just worse. The syndrome doesn't let her see anything else but what she is terrified of, no matter how clearly different the reality is.
Keiichi snaps, he had stumbled back after the punch. Falling sitting to the ground, still in a daze, his hand went back to his neck almost immediately because it still itched. But now it doesn't. It just hurts. Stings.
Keiichi looks. With a scared and worried expression, but his pupils are normal now. And he sees... Haruki on the ground before him. Minato standing. Haruki breathing. Minato breathing.]
Minato-kun... [But... But the gun... Was that an hallucination too? But it was real...
It doesn't matter. That's right. What does that matter. Just as his slightly wounded neck or his hand with a bit of blood on the nails. There's something more important.]
Haruki!!! Damnit, now is not the time to lose it Keiichi!
[Keiichi crawls to the other, taking him in his arms to make sure that's alright. He had been trapped on ice, damnit!]
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If you see a dot at the wall and hate bugs you will think it's a bug. It's the same with Satoko, just worse. The syndrome doesn't let her see anything else but what she is terrified of, no matter how clearly different the reality is.
Keiichi snaps, he had stumbled back after the punch. Falling sitting to the ground, still in a daze, his hand went back to his neck almost immediately because it still itched. But now it doesn't. It just hurts. Stings.
Keiichi looks. With a scared and worried expression, but his pupils are normal now. And he sees... Haruki on the ground before him. Minato standing. Haruki breathing. Minato breathing.]
Minato-kun... [But... But the gun... Was that an hallucination too? But it was real...
It doesn't matter. That's right. What does that matter. Just as his slightly wounded neck or his hand with a bit of blood on the nails. There's something more important.]
Haruki!!! Damnit, now is not the time to lose it Keiichi!
[Keiichi crawls to the other, taking him in his arms to make sure that's alright. He had been trapped on ice, damnit!]