[ hey, nineteen is plenty adult to hua cheng, who died on a battlefield at seventeen fully thinking himself grown.
it takes, he thinks, a certain type of person to be willing to accept so much derision and ire simply for the sake of saving another's life. hua cheng could never—his temper flares too hot, and he's selfish besides. not nami, though. to let her entire village hate her for years because the alternative was to let them care and let them die... there's strength in that.
he hums under his breath, taking it all in. ]
And did you? Buy it back. [ the truth must have come out somehow, he guesses, if only because of how nami had referred to it in the past tense—that her village used to call her all those things. ] Did you kill Arlong in the process?
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it takes, he thinks, a certain type of person to be willing to accept so much derision and ire simply for the sake of saving another's life. hua cheng could never—his temper flares too hot, and he's selfish besides. not nami, though. to let her entire village hate her for years because the alternative was to let them care and let them die... there's strength in that.
he hums under his breath, taking it all in. ]
And did you? Buy it back. [ the truth must have come out somehow, he guesses, if only because of how nami had referred to it in the past tense—that her village used to call her all those things. ] Did you kill Arlong in the process?