Always, always astounded that Akira seems to just know the right things to say to get him back in the game, to get him standing on his own two feet again.
And while he'll always feel that he could have done something, that? Is enough to get him to stop wallowing in his own regret, to get him to face forward instead of focusing on the past.]
....You're right.
[He smiles - no, grins for the first time in what feels like forever, that fire and fierce determination returning slowly but surely to his eye.
They still have something to do, even when they're dead. And after all, shouldn't he of all people know that death isn't the end? He is, after all, a shinigami.]
There's no way I'm going to let it end here. Death isn't an end - it's a beginning.
[And -]
Besides - even if we don't get our bodies back, if we can get back to my world...I can just have Urahara make us all Gigais.
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Always, always astounded that Akira seems to just know the right things to say to get him back in the game, to get him standing on his own two feet again.
And while he'll always feel that he could have done something, that? Is enough to get him to stop wallowing in his own regret, to get him to face forward instead of focusing on the past.]
....You're right.
[He smiles - no, grins for the first time in what feels like forever, that fire and fierce determination returning slowly but surely to his eye.
They still have something to do, even when they're dead. And after all, shouldn't he of all people know that death isn't the end? He is, after all, a shinigami.]
There's no way I'm going to let it end here. Death isn't an end - it's a beginning.
[And -]
Besides - even if we don't get our bodies back, if we can get back to my world...I can just have Urahara make us all Gigais.