Souji doesn't respond for a long moment and silence settles between them, brittle and impenetrable at the same time. Then he takes a breath and lets his hands fall away from his face.

"I can't make it so that you won't feel like this is your fault." Only time and Minato himself could do that. Knowing Minato, it would be awhile.

"There will be events when either of us might do something like this again to the other. If we give up because of it, then we lose and Wonderland wins."

It felt like an over-simplification, but it was true. There weren't many things they could control here; their own relationships had to be one area in which they forced their autonomy.