[ Mine is able to meet his gaze. Money, then with it power, he'd promised, but even through the patriarch's speech he'd been left to wonder if Nishikiyama is satisfied. Mine tries to see it in his eyes now.
He clings to that obstinate desire of his, to only find a way up and further up, the cost of it nothing that he might not be able to pay. In Nishikiyama's promise, though, nights and now months ago, even shrouded in the man's own ambition, Mine remembers himself asking for something scarcely able to be weighed up. Nishikiyama hasn't let anyone else come close to him since.
Restraint has been fractured by his want to be received by someone who has what he doesn't, and it has demanded Mine's answer rather than Nishikiyama did. Mine finds himself being buried alive in the silence when Nishikiyama's look fades and he finds no reply within it. So, even he turns away.
He can't ask what the moment meant and whatever Mine imagines, the thought abandons him under the sudden weight of Nishikiyama's palm. Now he won't let himself look, but he feels the same incisiveness in touch as when Nishikiyama's glance met him across the room. Some sensation rising in his chest, Mine hears himself breathe in sharply. ]
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Date: 2023-12-10 08:52 am (UTC)He clings to that obstinate desire of his, to only find a way up and further up, the cost of it nothing that he might not be able to pay. In Nishikiyama's promise, though, nights and now months ago, even shrouded in the man's own ambition, Mine remembers himself asking for something scarcely able to be weighed up. Nishikiyama hasn't let anyone else come close to him since.
Restraint has been fractured by his want to be received by someone who has what he doesn't, and it has demanded Mine's answer rather than Nishikiyama did. Mine finds himself being buried alive in the silence when Nishikiyama's look fades and he finds no reply within it. So, even he turns away.
He can't ask what the moment meant and whatever Mine imagines, the thought abandons him under the sudden weight of Nishikiyama's palm. Now he won't let himself look, but he feels the same incisiveness in touch as when Nishikiyama's glance met him across the room. Some sensation rising in his chest, Mine hears himself breathe in sharply. ]