Title: Stories
Day #27: Kurosaki Shun tells stories of a boy who never became a hero.
There is a statue of Shun up on the square of the rebuilt Heartland city. It is grandiose and pretentious in a way that makes Shun uncomfortable.
Shun rarely leaves his house nowadays.
Ruri visits often but she always left. Sora comes for tea in silence and Reiji sends emails that Shun never reads. Sometimes Yuuya stays over before setting off again and Shun had never been one to ask questions.
Shun is not a hero, he is a survivor.
Shun is not honorable, he falls prey to temptation. He seeked vegeance and was not a good enough person to forgive.
Sometimes children stay over for war tales, wide-eyed and looking for grand fairytales of heroism and valor. Of his stories fighting Academia alone.
But instead Shun tells them of Yuuto, who was eleven when war come knocking on their door. He tells of the boy who won't let him stay broken, of a friend that never lost himself to war. He tells them about a life that ended too soon and of words he never got to say.
Shun will never be a hero, but Yuuto was.
He does not want them to make the same mistakes he did.