It was a difficult enough secret to keep in Kyoto, and given the circumstances, only more difficult to hide as long as he was here. Someone would have to notice sooner or later, and Yukimura did pay closer attention to him than most. And all things considered...Yukimura should know. With as much time as he spent around Saitou, it didn't feel right to keep it under wraps, not when one bad day on Saitou's part could put him in mortal peril.
Saitou had never spilled a Shinsengumi secret to anyone outside the organization before. Then again, there were a lot of things he hadn't done before Orochi's world happened. He could keep the shogunate out of the story easily enough; the existence of rasetsu and ochimizu would be difficult to hide here, but as long as he kept their origins obscured... Maybe Hijikata would understand his reasoning.
And if not...well, the usual punishment for breaking the Code was somewhat beyond him now, but he'd take whatever he had coming to him, regardless.]
Your suspicions are not wholly incorrect. I am not an oni...
[His voice is quiet - quiet, but still even. He's not ashamed of what he did. He'd do it again, if he had to.
And yet there's something very uncomfortable about confessing it for the first time to someone who doesn't know any of the background, any of what led him to that path.]
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It was a difficult enough secret to keep in Kyoto, and given the circumstances, only more difficult to hide as long as he was here. Someone would have to notice sooner or later, and Yukimura did pay closer attention to him than most. And all things considered...Yukimura should know. With as much time as he spent around Saitou, it didn't feel right to keep it under wraps, not when one bad day on Saitou's part could put him in mortal peril.
Saitou had never spilled a Shinsengumi secret to anyone outside the organization before. Then again, there were a lot of things he hadn't done before Orochi's world happened. He could keep the shogunate out of the story easily enough; the existence of rasetsu and ochimizu would be difficult to hide here, but as long as he kept their origins obscured... Maybe Hijikata would understand his reasoning.
And if not...well, the usual punishment for breaking the Code was somewhat beyond him now, but he'd take whatever he had coming to him, regardless.]
Your suspicions are not wholly incorrect. I am not an oni...
[His voice is quiet - quiet, but still even. He's not ashamed of what he did. He'd do it again, if he had to.
And yet there's something very uncomfortable about confessing it for the first time to someone who doesn't know any of the background, any of what led him to that path.]
...but I am no longer human.