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[messianic]

... It kind of made me realize...

[ Minato smiles a tiny little smile down at his miso soup. ]

... No matter what, I have a responsibility here to do everything that I can do. Even if it's just something like this.

So that's what I'm going to do. No matter... what.

[ No matter how hopeless this all felt or how crushing it was... there's still at least one tiny thing he can do, and so he'll do it. ]

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[staring at his miso soup now, chopsticks held loosely in his fingers]

[. . .]

[quietly]

After all. . . helping one person is still helping, isn't it?

[messianic]

That's right. So long as that's the case... there's meaning to us being here.

Even if it's something small.

[ even if it's just a bowl of soup, or diving in the middle of a fight to try to save one person--or monster. ]

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[with lips curved into a gentle smile, Akira looks up, catching Minato's gaze with his own]

[. . .]

[then he lifts his bowl of miso soup to take a sip]