[Primo listens to Adell's words, patiently waiting for the other to make his point, his own expression unreadable even if Adell had been looking at him. There are things Adell is wrong about but it's only natural, he never told him about that part really, so it's obvious he would misunderstand. It doesn't really matter, not when he finally gets around to what he wants to say. He closes his eyes, letting the words wash over him.
There is no rejection. No "you're not really Keiichi then".
There is no doubt. No "you're joking right".
There is no accusation. No "why are you alive and the Keiichi I knew dead?".
And it feels good, it's a pure and deep relief washing over the wounds he carries. It won't heal them but it's still good to feel it. It's still nice to not have to argue about who he is, about who he was or try to make the other understand that there is no longer a Keiichi that knew them, because that one was him. He has never forgotten why he trusted Adell with the information he did back then despite their not close friendship, but even if he had this now has just reminded him of it.
Honest, loyal to his friends and unable to just give up on them. Blunt and rough on the edges, with not much skill for words but still capable of making his point come across. A trustworthy demon who always cared for those whom he called friends, even if they had changed and were centuries older.
Primo smiles a bit.]
Thank you, Adell. Though you're wrong in one thing. I don't carry the memories of many Keiichis, Oyashiro-sama had been using her powers for a long time, for the equivalent of hundreds of years to make sure that the souls of everyone got moved to another parallel world for another try. There weren't multiples Keiichi, only one with multiples lives and during the time he was in Luceti he was already capable of remembering fragments of those other lives.
Only after our victory, after I abandoned that last world, there have been multiple Keiichis, one per parallel world there is. Before that, there was just me. So it's not that the one you knew has more or less control, there is only me, there has been only me since the start even if I didn't exist as I do now.
[It's the reason why being rejected by his former friends is something he fears, because it only means pain for both ends. Because they will keep looking for a Keiichi that is no longer there, since all there is now is Primo.]
Honestly the only thing the memories of Luceti have done is make me able to retain some humanity in me and not be consumed by my birth. Oyashiro-sama's power gave the spark for me to exist separated from Keiichi, so he could be a complete clean one, not haunted by nightmares or strange deja vús. I took with me all the former memories we had, as well as all the pain and hate he felt for seeing his trust and mercy broken. Part of him never wanted to forgive Takano but the words of a friend made him decide to try, to give her the chance to be able to be happy and not condemned for things that probably weren't under her full control. But when she still killed Rika... Reasons didn't matter anymore, it didn't matter anymore if she was also a victim or not.
I couldn't exactly let him go into a new world with such a grudge, with so much hate, not when what we needed to win was Keiichi being at his best. So I took them with me. And had it not been for the time I spent in Luceti, I probably would have been consumed by that grudge. Even now I can't really forgive her and if she were to appear before me... I may not kill her but it won't be pretty.
[His words are blunt and honest, with a ring of truth in them. He's not going to hide his grudge, his own self, he has no reasons to and it's better that way anyway, much better than to hide it and have it later be discovered.]
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There is no rejection. No "you're not really Keiichi then".
There is no doubt. No "you're joking right".
There is no accusation. No "why are you alive and the Keiichi I knew dead?".
And it feels good, it's a pure and deep relief washing over the wounds he carries. It won't heal them but it's still good to feel it. It's still nice to not have to argue about who he is, about who he was or try to make the other understand that there is no longer a Keiichi that knew them, because that one was him. He has never forgotten why he trusted Adell with the information he did back then despite their not close friendship, but even if he had this now has just reminded him of it.
Honest, loyal to his friends and unable to just give up on them. Blunt and rough on the edges, with not much skill for words but still capable of making his point come across. A trustworthy demon who always cared for those whom he called friends, even if they had changed and were centuries older.
Primo smiles a bit.]
Thank you, Adell. Though you're wrong in one thing. I don't carry the memories of many Keiichis, Oyashiro-sama had been using her powers for a long time, for the equivalent of hundreds of years to make sure that the souls of everyone got moved to another parallel world for another try. There weren't multiples Keiichi, only one with multiples lives and during the time he was in Luceti he was already capable of remembering fragments of those other lives.
Only after our victory, after I abandoned that last world, there have been multiple Keiichis, one per parallel world there is. Before that, there was just me. So it's not that the one you knew has more or less control, there is only me, there has been only me since the start even if I didn't exist as I do now.
[It's the reason why being rejected by his former friends is something he fears, because it only means pain for both ends. Because they will keep looking for a Keiichi that is no longer there, since all there is now is Primo.]
Honestly the only thing the memories of Luceti have done is make me able to retain some humanity in me and not be consumed by my birth. Oyashiro-sama's power gave the spark for me to exist separated from Keiichi, so he could be a complete clean one, not haunted by nightmares or strange deja vús. I took with me all the former memories we had, as well as all the pain and hate he felt for seeing his trust and mercy broken. Part of him never wanted to forgive Takano but the words of a friend made him decide to try, to give her the chance to be able to be happy and not condemned for things that probably weren't under her full control. But when she still killed Rika... Reasons didn't matter anymore, it didn't matter anymore if she was also a victim or not.
I couldn't exactly let him go into a new world with such a grudge, with so much hate, not when what we needed to win was Keiichi being at his best. So I took them with me. And had it not been for the time I spent in Luceti, I probably would have been consumed by that grudge. Even now I can't really forgive her and if she were to appear before me... I may not kill her but it won't be pretty.
[His words are blunt and honest, with a ring of truth in them. He's not going to hide his grudge, his own self, he has no reasons to and it's better that way anyway, much better than to hide it and have it later be discovered.]