[ There's a soft blink followed by a tired sort of acceptance, at that...
But, in terms of finding an answer? Any successful searching will at least yield one specific answer: Akira's telling the truth about that part!
Although being a Composer does come at a price? And if we're gonna be looking far enough into this Akira's future, that comes with the danger of seeing how he becomes one. In this case, it was Akira jumping into the path of a knife - a kid (male, black hair) no older than sixteen was saved that day, but... it definitely wasn't Akira who walked away from there. He, instead, gets to collapse against the wall, struggling to breathe (it's hard to when there's a knife in your chest, okay), as the wielder of the knife runs away and the kid starts frantically calling the police.
There's no fear, at first - Akira knew his time would be coming, long before this. He'll finally be joining his fiances, after all, as a Composer. They'll be a team on mostly equal footing this way, right? The 'at first' is definitely important, though, since the fear will come creeping in, the colder he starts to feel. The more the pain starts to fade to the background, the more Akira realizes the weight of what's to come. The friends he will watch grow old and die. His parents. The life he knows now... It's all going to be gone soon and he'll become like a rock stuck on the side of a river, watching the world pass by.
A pity, really. He almost lived to see twenty.
Now nineteen is all he'll know for many decades - centuries? - to come. ]
cw: death by stabbing
But, in terms of finding an answer? Any successful searching will at least yield one specific answer: Akira's telling the truth about that part!
Although being a Composer does come at a price? And if we're gonna be looking far enough into this Akira's future, that comes with the danger of seeing how he becomes one. In this case, it was Akira jumping into the path of a knife - a kid (male, black hair) no older than sixteen was saved that day, but... it definitely wasn't Akira who walked away from there. He, instead, gets to collapse against the wall, struggling to breathe (it's hard to when there's a knife in your chest, okay), as the wielder of the knife runs away and the kid starts frantically calling the police.
There's no fear, at first - Akira knew his time would be coming, long before this. He'll finally be joining his fiances, after all, as a Composer. They'll be a team on mostly equal footing this way, right? The 'at first' is definitely important, though, since the fear will come creeping in, the colder he starts to feel. The more the pain starts to fade to the background, the more Akira realizes the weight of what's to come. The friends he will watch grow old and die. His parents. The life he knows now... It's all going to be gone soon and he'll become like a rock stuck on the side of a river, watching the world pass by.
A pity, really. He almost lived to see twenty.
Now nineteen is all he'll know for many decades - centuries? - to come. ]