For the prompt 280 - prompt: harm
32. Reality
This is all real, Ryuji knows.
Everything he's ever done has real consequences. Every action, every success, every choice, has a reaction.
His failures, his mistakes, are so obvious.
Chitose is gone. Erika is getting worse. Keisuke is
In the way
Being dragged down.
This is his responsibility. He knows that. All of this is on him. He dragged people just like Arata did.
He's supposed to be different, take responsibility, be the adult.
He's so tired of that. He's so weak. So useless.
Or maybe the world is just too big and scary. He needs power to make it less terrifying, to make it safe. To make it good.
To make a perfect world. He needs that world. Ryuji has to create that world. Everyone will be happy then.
No one will leave him then.