[She shakes her head just a little. The fact that he's apologizing and he's legitimately scared - that kind of fear is impossible to hide - is telling her everything she needs to know.]
The fact that you just apologized tells me you don't want to hurt anyone. And that you won't, not if you have any control over things at all.
[Yukiko pauses for just a moment, trying to think of how to explain it.]
Back at home...back at home, my friends and I stopped someone who had the power to see and visit another world. It was a scary place, and if someone was left in there too long, they would die. The person we stopped was kidnapping people and intentionally leaving them in that world, wanting the Shadows to kill them. They did that to me, and if it wasn't for my friends - including one of the Shadows, who didn't like what was happening and wanted to change things, if you can believe that? I wouldn't be alive right now.
That person - the one that hurt people so cruelly - is here, and in this place. If I was talking to him right now, if it had been him that hurt me last week, I know that he wouldn't have apologized. He would be laughing in my face right now, instead, and probably boasting to himself about how great it was to have gotten a free pass to do all of that, because he wants to cause pain and hurt to other people.
Even if you did hurt me last week...I can tell by how you're acting right now you weren't doing it because you wanted to be cruel or to hurt me. You weren't yourself, and I - maybe I'm being naive, but I don't think your real self would intentionally hurt someone like that.
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The fact that you just apologized tells me you don't want to hurt anyone. And that you won't, not if you have any control over things at all.
[Yukiko pauses for just a moment, trying to think of how to explain it.]
Back at home...back at home, my friends and I stopped someone who had the power to see and visit another world. It was a scary place, and if someone was left in there too long, they would die. The person we stopped was kidnapping people and intentionally leaving them in that world, wanting the Shadows to kill them. They did that to me, and if it wasn't for my friends - including one of the Shadows, who didn't like what was happening and wanted to change things, if you can believe that? I wouldn't be alive right now.
That person - the one that hurt people so cruelly - is here, and in this place. If I was talking to him right now, if it had been him that hurt me last week, I know that he wouldn't have apologized. He would be laughing in my face right now, instead, and probably boasting to himself about how great it was to have gotten a free pass to do all of that, because he wants to cause pain and hurt to other people.
Even if you did hurt me last week...I can tell by how you're acting right now you weren't doing it because you wanted to be cruel or to hurt me. You weren't yourself, and I - maybe I'm being naive, but I don't think your real self would intentionally hurt someone like that.