#{ i'm not sure how familiar you are with that AU/theory about rantaro and tsumugi both participating in that last game }

[moonsmultimusings]

❛  hey, sometimes you gotta kill a guy.  ❜ -From Tsumugi to Rantaro

Feeling Sentences - Accepting ☾

'Sometimes you gotta kill a guy.'

After narrowly surviving a killing game once, Rantaro unfortunately had to agree. Maybe it had more to do with him having been weathered to the idea by now, but he didn't balk at it the same way he had at the start of their game. People killed each other. Often, actually. It didn't take as much prodding as one might expect. With he right motives in place, most people would agree. It would be a lie to say he hadn't once or twice considered it himself, before he let his reason return to him and set him straight. The way to win a killing game wasn't to play along. No, his main goal was to survive. He wanted to get out of there, to make it back. There was unfinished business he had to do before he could die.

That said, if there was a case where killing could be the way to winning, outside of the set of rules they were provided, he might consider it. If it was to stop the game from continuing, he could understand it. “I understand what you mean, Tsumugi, but I don't love hearing that from you.” It brought up too many memories from their last game together, from a time when it seemed like any hand he considered reaching out to would either end up dead, or with a knife pressed to his throat. He didn't want to consider going back there, returning as an 'Ultimate Survivor.' He was already planning ways to get around the upcoming 53rd game. “I don't think we need to be that blasè about it.”