[So he had lived through it...and returned to the past to ensure that it didn't happen again?
It's a ludicrous story, and from almost anyone else's lips, he would have said so without thinking - that it was impossible, that it stretched the bounds of believability even in a world as upside-down as the one they had been thrust into...
...but it's Yukimura saying it.
And to Saitou, that makes all the difference in the world.]
Then...
[He can bleed quite a bit and still live to tell the tale, of course. There's little a rasetsu can't come back from. But Yukimura's hesitation, the look on his face when he said that -]
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It's a ludicrous story, and from almost anyone else's lips, he would have said so without thinking - that it was impossible, that it stretched the bounds of believability even in a world as upside-down as the one they had been thrust into...
...but it's Yukimura saying it.
And to Saitou, that makes all the difference in the world.]
Then...
[He can bleed quite a bit and still live to tell the tale, of course. There's little a rasetsu can't come back from. But Yukimura's hesitation, the look on his face when he said that -]
I did not survive.
[It isn't a question.]