[ :) ]

"Just that one specifically?"

[ It just feels so weird to Hien, who has more or less accepted that things happen to him just because it does, and not because of cause and effect. ]

"Why just that one? I have billions of others. But that one specifically? Just..."

[ Hien is quiet. Yosuke is doing his best to keep him rooted to reality here, but sometimes you learn how to filter constant voices in your head and when you start losing yourself, you also lose control of that filter. It's so loud. He feels like he's getting a headache. Hien is usually calm because he thought he was over these sorts of breakdowns. Turns out he isn't, no matter how long he lived.

He does his best to focus on Yosuke in front of him. He's right there. ]

"... Okay."

[ The anxiety isn't completely gone, but it's now overshadowed with something that feels like a daily necessity has been skipped too many times and your body starts to rebel against you.

Deprive a man of his water and sink him into the thirst, and he'll forget how to be human again. ]