#A SWORD OF FRIENDSHIP. | c: benitora.

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"everyone else believes in you. why shouldn’t you?" - Benitora

critical role.

         “ who says i don’t? ”

all the confidence in the world couldn’t hide the way his shoulders shake a bit in their set, the way his back is just a little too stiff, the way the aura around him has been icy cold and biting since tokito had thrown them from the tower and taken bontenmaru from them.

akira had witnessed tokito’s power. akira had seen the way he’d batted bontenmaru around like a cat toying with an insect and how he knew he’d be unable to do anything. he was powerless for once.

he’d hit his wall and it scared the daylights out of him.

he hears the tapping of benitora’s shoes behind him, tries to let the rhythmic sound settle him, but just finds himself becoming more and more irritated as the time passes.

benitora didn’t struggle with these thoughts. benitora was…was an idealistic fool who believed in peace between men and the end of wars and he didn’t struggle with a belief in his own strength. he didn’t have a wall to hit.

part of akira wishes they were enemies still. at least then he could have some way to get this jittery anger out of his system.

         “ let’s hope we find the others soon. we have to save bontenmaru. ”