[There's a dryness in the tone that could be humor if one squinted really, really hard. Otherwise it's just a very true observation, and they both know it.
At the word joy, there's silence, mostly because if they survive, Alucard knows how he'll be spending any time in the world. Full of guilt, because that's the only possible result. Wallachia will survive, and he'll have committed patricide for it and fully orphaned himself because it was the right thing to do. It's a thought he has had before, one that plays in the back of his mind constantly, and so all he can do is shake his head.]
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[There's a dryness in the tone that could be humor if one squinted really, really hard. Otherwise it's just a very true observation, and they both know it.
At the word joy, there's silence, mostly because if they survive, Alucard knows how he'll be spending any time in the world. Full of guilt, because that's the only possible result. Wallachia will survive, and he'll have committed patricide for it and fully orphaned himself because it was the right thing to do. It's a thought he has had before, one that plays in the back of his mind constantly, and so all he can do is shake his head.]
You'll have better luck doing that to Sypha then.