[ That's definitely one way to put it, and that gets Break to shrug helplessly. Even if he's about to get decked, he knows Gilbert at least completely understands where this is coming from.
...Though that realization is odd, in a way. For someone that keeps themselves to purposefully closed off to others, to think that he's relieved at such a thing is a surprise to him. He knows what that means, naturally, but even so, he'd still like to deny it. Break and Gilbert may have gotten closer over the past few months than they have in years, but it doesn't make Break any much more comfortable with acknowledging his attachments to others.
Yet there's at least one small sign of it. He doesn't brush it off completely or torment Gilbert as a distraction from it, and his comment is instead lightly self-deprecating. ]
...Well, it's no surprise, is it? I was no better when I simply thought Reim had died.
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...Though that realization is odd, in a way. For someone that keeps themselves to purposefully closed off to others, to think that he's relieved at such a thing is a surprise to him. He knows what that means, naturally, but even so, he'd still like to deny it. Break and Gilbert may have gotten closer over the past few months than they have in years, but it doesn't make Break any much more comfortable with acknowledging his attachments to others.
Yet there's at least one small sign of it. He doesn't brush it off completely or torment Gilbert as a distraction from it, and his comment is instead lightly self-deprecating. ]
...Well, it's no surprise, is it? I was no better when I simply thought Reim had died.