Minato blinks at that question. It honestly startles him out of his worry and quiet melancholy. Was there someone? Someone... how? Someone he loved? As a family, he loved all of SEES (or as close to a family as such a group could be). Singularly? ... Romantically?
He thought back to his last moments, head in Aigis' lap. He thought back to the way she spoke to him. "No."
Not in the way Minako means, anyway. There were a lot of someones. Yukari who had been so cold with him to start, so angry. The way she'd softened, the way she opened up, the way she had become so determined... Fuuka who had been shy and hard to pull out of her shell, who needed something to be passionate about, whose voice still rang in his head when he did something dangerous. Mitsuru, the untouchable ice queen who was really warm and confused on the inside.
And Aigis. Who had become human for him, who had overwritten her own programming to save SEES. Who had learned to cry from the way she felt for them all.
He closes his eyes again, smiling very faintly. The memories that he'd held so dear on that rooftop in the spring sun, the sounds of his friends coming to them, to keep their promise against all odds come, again, to the front of his mind.
"Aigis was there. That last day."
He feels this is worth mentioning, wondering if it was different for her. Aigis was different around him. He wonders if it was the same for Minako.
And then a pit hits the bottom of his stomach. How is he supposed to respond to what Akihiko isn't aware of? How does he even get his head around it? Then again, if Shinjiro was here, he doesn't suppose it's that surprising.
He turns to look at her, sleepiness gone from his eyes again, replaced with a kind of worried curiosity.
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He thought back to his last moments, head in Aigis' lap. He thought back to the way she spoke to him. "No."
Not in the way Minako means, anyway. There were a lot of someones. Yukari who had been so cold with him to start, so angry. The way she'd softened, the way she opened up, the way she had become so determined... Fuuka who had been shy and hard to pull out of her shell, who needed something to be passionate about, whose voice still rang in his head when he did something dangerous. Mitsuru, the untouchable ice queen who was really warm and confused on the inside.
And Aigis. Who had become human for him, who had overwritten her own programming to save SEES. Who had learned to cry from the way she felt for them all.
He closes his eyes again, smiling very faintly. The memories that he'd held so dear on that rooftop in the spring sun, the sounds of his friends coming to them, to keep their promise against all odds come, again, to the front of his mind.
"Aigis was there. That last day."
He feels this is worth mentioning, wondering if it was different for her. Aigis was different around him. He wonders if it was the same for Minako.
And then a pit hits the bottom of his stomach. How is he supposed to respond to what Akihiko isn't aware of? How does he even get his head around it? Then again, if Shinjiro was here, he doesn't suppose it's that surprising.
He turns to look at her, sleepiness gone from his eyes again, replaced with a kind of worried curiosity.
"Are you going to tell him?"