It... Sensei said if I chose the path of an assassin, he'd support my decision. There must be something I've forgotten, if this book says something else.
[And it does. It so plainly does. But - a teacher is about as far from an assassin as someone can get, never mind that the two have been inextricably linked for Nagisa for the last year. An assassin is someone who takes futures away. A teacher is someone who helps build them. Korosensei hadn't been both - he'd deliberately changed himself.
He'd chosen weakness.]
This must be what sensei wanted for me, but....but I don't know what I want. I never have. [He knows he's told different things to the both of them. Jonathan has learned more about Class E. But he looks at Yurick.] I...told you. About my mom. She never let me make my own choices, let alone have my own dreams...
An assassin is all I could think of becoming, when I was asked. [And Nagisa knows. He knows it's not a path you can just...step off of at any time. Graduation might be the only chance for Class E. And after everything that's happened in this place...what options are there, for him?] ...There's a title... 'The Reaper' is the name given to the greatest assassin in the world. The Reaper I met was sensei's first student - our senpai - and he- he killed Kayano-chan. But he's dead now, and I think that title belongs to me, now. Because I killed sensei.
[Nagisa...doesn't know what to do. Maybe it's because of the weeks spent here, where all he's been able to focus on is survival, that the future just seems like one big blank. Maybe it's the missing pieces of his memory. Maybe this is just what graduating and becoming an adult means. Whatever it is... The only time Nagisa ever felt more small and helpless was when Kayano's body hit the ground.]
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[And it does. It so plainly does. But - a teacher is about as far from an assassin as someone can get, never mind that the two have been inextricably linked for Nagisa for the last year. An assassin is someone who takes futures away. A teacher is someone who helps build them. Korosensei hadn't been both - he'd deliberately changed himself.
He'd chosen weakness.]
This must be what sensei wanted for me, but....but I don't know what I want. I never have. [He knows he's told different things to the both of them. Jonathan has learned more about Class E. But he looks at Yurick.] I...told you. About my mom. She never let me make my own choices, let alone have my own dreams...
An assassin is all I could think of becoming, when I was asked. [And Nagisa knows. He knows it's not a path you can just...step off of at any time. Graduation might be the only chance for Class E. And after everything that's happened in this place...what options are there, for him?] ...There's a title... 'The Reaper' is the name given to the greatest assassin in the world. The Reaper I met was sensei's first student - our senpai - and he- he killed Kayano-chan. But he's dead now, and I think that title belongs to me, now. Because I killed sensei.
[Nagisa...doesn't know what to do. Maybe it's because of the weeks spent here, where all he's been able to focus on is survival, that the future just seems like one big blank. Maybe it's the missing pieces of his memory. Maybe this is just what graduating and becoming an adult means. Whatever it is... The only time Nagisa ever felt more small and helpless was when Kayano's body hit the ground.]