[ void archives’ bluntness and immediate need for wolfwood to clarify what he meant shocks him in a way it shouldn’t have. he really would not have to go too deep into just what he means by it in detail, so offers the best answer that he can to have the conversation move along. or what he hopes to be the best answer that he can provide to move things along. ]

My neat trick of being able to heal unreasonably fast came with a few nasty side effects even if I don’t take advantage of it.

[ despite the obviousness of it, no one is any wiser because no one here has bothered to ask. it isn’t all that important, after all. the failed opportunity to get some petty revenge on them about the endearment has wolfwood scrunching his face (though it is still telling in its own way). however, the way that they say so much while avoiding answering wolfwood’s very simple question truly says it all. ]

They’re really two peas in a pod. Well, mostly the same pod. Needle-Noggin’ doesn’t have the same limits as yer Welt does. When I say that he’d rather die than harm another person then that’s what I mean. It doesn’t matter who they are, what they’re doin', or what they’ve done—he’d never kill them.

“No one has the right to decide who lives or dies.”

[ it would do wolfwood good to leave it here and say nothing else, however, it feels a bit wrong. void archives had given examples of just how stubborn (reckless) welt is with his beliefs and nothing wolfwood has said is anything new… he just knows that he needs to prepare himself for their reaction to what he’s about to share because he could already see how poorly it’s going to go. just—in what direction will it go? after everything that they’ve talked about… ]

I offered my life to him. [ wolfwood says simply. he continues before void archives has a chance to interject: ] —to be the blood on his hands and make it easier for him to pull the trigger when his resolve gets pushed its limits.

[ because they both know that there’s no way that vash could live his entire life, however long that will end up being, without having his resolve pushed to its absolute limits. wolfwood knows that there will be a moment where vash will be backed into a corner and be forced to decide on what he’ll sacrifice to not take a life of another. what will he lose in order to stay true to his beliefs. he doesn’t know when or where or even if he’ll be there to witness it; he just knows it will happen. wolfwood chuckles half-heartedly to himself as he shakes his head. ]

Given how I’m still standin’ here, ya can guess how that went down.