[Panic abates, leaving anxious fear behind. He thought he knew that; he hoped he did, but for a moment...
Tetsuo's shoulders are tense under Kaneda's hands as he looks up at him with wide, pleading eyes. If anyone understands the horror of what anything to do with police entails, it's Kaneda.]
How?!
[And to Minato, weakly -]
There's no way I wouldn't!
[Realization after realization only intensifies his horror at the very mention of anything legal. The color drains from his face completely.
He could die and come back. If he did go to jail, if that happened... No one would ever have proof about what they did to him in there. It'd be his word against theirs; a useless delinquent nothing against 'upstanding' police officers. They could find a new way to kill him every day. Or torture him and kill him to get rid of the evidence- many of his scars from his adventures here had faded and grown a lot less prominent since he revived. And he regenerated a heart...
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Tetsuo's shoulders are tense under Kaneda's hands as he looks up at him with wide, pleading eyes. If anyone understands the horror of what anything to do with police entails, it's Kaneda.]
How?!
[And to Minato, weakly -]
There's no way I wouldn't!
[Realization after realization only intensifies his horror at the very mention of anything legal. The color drains from his face completely.
He could die and come back. If he did go to jail, if that happened... No one would ever have proof about what they did to him in there. It'd be his word against theirs; a useless delinquent nothing against 'upstanding' police officers. They could find a new way to kill him every day. Or torture him and kill him to get rid of the evidence- many of his scars from his adventures here had faded and grown a lot less prominent since he revived. And he regenerated a heart...
Tetsuo's shiver has nothing to do with the cold.]