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XXXVIII: Protect

"To protect the things that matter. You know, like my friends..."

Riku repeated the line over and over to himself as we walked through what he was told was the 'Realm of Darkness.'

He had said that ten years ago to someone he couldn't quite remember...

"Yeah well I didn't do a very good job, now did I?" he mumbled to himself.

True, for a while it looked like he wanted to attack his friends, rather than protect them.

But, he told himself he'd make up for that one day.

And that day started when he met a certain mouse.