[Stuck in a web, watching each other lose bits and pieces of themselves, until the venom dissolves them from the inside, and they're hollow, empty shells--]
Anything you do...will be as useless as what I did. W-whatever decided Ryou shouldn't have his powers will make sure of that. We'll all suffer exactly as much as they want us to suffer...!
[His shoulders are shaking, in her grip. He's trembling.]
There's no rules here, Nanami. I was wrong. It just looks like there are, to trick us. My friends...
...
My friends are a trick, too. Everyone I know is another way to hurt me. Either I watch them hurt, and hurt myself because I can't do anything, or...
...or, I try to help them, and it doesn't work...it just makes other people hurt, and this place doesn't have to lift a finger.
cw body horror metaphor in meta
[He lets out a terrible, manic little laugh.]
You can't help.
I can't help. Nobody can help.
We're all...s-stuck here...
[Stuck in a web, watching each other lose bits and pieces of themselves, until the venom dissolves them from the inside, and they're hollow, empty shells--]
Anything you do...will be as useless as what I did. W-whatever decided Ryou shouldn't have his powers will make sure of that. We'll all suffer exactly as much as they want us to suffer...!
[His shoulders are shaking, in her grip. He's trembling.]
There's no rules here, Nanami. I was wrong. It just looks like there are, to trick us. My friends...
...
My friends are a trick, too. Everyone I know is another way to hurt me. Either I watch them hurt, and hurt myself because I can't do anything, or...
...or, I try to help them, and it doesn't work...it just makes other people hurt, and this place doesn't have to lift a finger.
That's probably why we get the coins.