[stahn knows that, or at least, he chooses to believe in leon's ability to the very end. it's not like there's really any question of leon's capabilities; he's still one of strongest and most talented swordsmen that stahn has ever met.
he still admires those abilities.]
It wasn't your responsibility, though. You shouldn't have had to go through that at all, or had to handle it. [he stands firm in that belief. stahn is taking responsibility for his mistakes.]
If anything went wrong—if anything else happened, it still would have been my fault. [he activated the bots, and he failed to keep them contained until things got out of hand. that wasn't leon's job to handle.
besides, he didn't want leon to have to raise his sword against a friend again, even if it wasn't really him. but that part he can't yet bring himself to say.]
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[stahn knows that, or at least, he chooses to believe in leon's ability to the very end. it's not like there's really any question of leon's capabilities; he's still one of strongest and most talented swordsmen that stahn has ever met.
he still admires those abilities.]
It wasn't your responsibility, though. You shouldn't have had to go through that at all, or had to handle it. [he stands firm in that belief. stahn is taking responsibility for his mistakes.]
If anything went wrong—if anything else happened, it still would have been my fault. [he activated the bots, and he failed to keep them contained until things got out of hand. that wasn't leon's job to handle.
besides, he didn't want leon to have to raise his sword against a friend again, even if it wasn't really him. but that part he can't yet bring himself to say.]