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The thief didn’t look up. Though he had been the one to come over to the other’s house, he didn’t want the detective to see him like this…

As he recalled the events from earlier that night, the tears wouldn’t stop. He could still feel the hand of the man he had tried to save, just before his grip had…

A choke escaped him and he lowered his head even more.

“There was nothing I could do…”

He’d known the other had wanted some time alone but he’d been so worried, had known something was wrong when the thief had shown up. His heart was breaking before him and it hurt so much. Slowly he made his way to the bed, being careful about climbing into it with him. 

Surely there was something he could do to help…

“You tried… Sometimes… that’s all you can do.”

Though he wanted nothing more than to hold the other close, Kid didn’t reach out towards him. Instead, he pulled up his knees, and wrapped his arms around them instead. It felt wrong, to be acting like this in front of Shinichi. And the detective had seen so much death, that it probably seemed like something natural, now.

“…Why? Why is it that no matter how hard someone tries, they can still fail? And fail so often….” The robot maker and his creation, Silver, Toshiya Hamano from when he and tantei-kun were together at the gathering of magic lovers, Shukuzen Ogami fromt the gathering of detectives, Haruhito Kanbara from the fake heist with Seiran, Nightmare… It didn’t happen to him as often, but each death that happened that he couldn’t prevent would never be forgotten. And they usually were preventable, if he’d just been able to do more, or figure out what was going on sooner… At least the detective was able to do something when it happened. All the thief had ever done was watch and then run away….