[Dojima wasn't... good, at this sort of thing. That line between professionalism in a case and the desperate need to compartmentalize his feelings was a struggle he was usually confident in, even involving death. So he could come off harsher than he meant to, in an effort to be objective.
Yet... still, he placed a hand on Ardyn's shoulder, giving it a small squeeze.
To steady him, to console him? He wasn't sure.]
If you need to leave, do it.
[He was never sure of the relationship between Ardyn and Noctis; Ardyn didn't seem to know or remember, and Noctis avoided the subject like the plague.
But Noctis was a good kid. Definitely no one who deserved to die like this...
But he had to be objective. They couldn't save Noctis, but they could at least find his killer.]
...This sort of force isn't something a normal human could do. We'd be looking at either a machine, super strength with a blunt object as the murder weapon or magic.
[The last two were said with a certain amount of discomfort on Dojima's tongue. He was a pragmatic, rational guy, alright? And magic didn't exist in his world.]
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[Dojima wasn't... good, at this sort of thing. That line between professionalism in a case and the desperate need to compartmentalize his feelings was a struggle he was usually confident in, even involving death. So he could come off harsher than he meant to, in an effort to be objective.
Yet... still, he placed a hand on Ardyn's shoulder, giving it a small squeeze.
To steady him, to console him? He wasn't sure.]
If you need to leave, do it.
[He was never sure of the relationship between Ardyn and Noctis; Ardyn didn't seem to know or remember, and Noctis avoided the subject like the plague.
But Noctis was a good kid. Definitely no one who deserved to die like this...
But he had to be objective. They couldn't save Noctis, but they could at least find his killer.]
...This sort of force isn't something a normal human could do. We'd be looking at either a machine, super strength with a blunt object as the murder weapon or magic.
[The last two were said with a certain amount of discomfort on Dojima's tongue. He was a pragmatic, rational guy, alright? And magic didn't exist in his world.]