There is willing to try to understand, and then there is fighting a losing battle with someone who isn't interested in rebuilding burned bridges.
[He's not. He'd barely tolerated Akira as it was, and then after that conversation? Well. It'd hurt so much more than he was ever willing to admit to himself, let alone to Akira.
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[He's not. He'd barely tolerated Akira as it was, and then after that conversation? Well. It'd hurt so much more than he was ever willing to admit to himself, let alone to Akira.
... he doesn't want to hurt like that again.]