rei’s emotional growth has been so fantastically exponential across the series—almost in the way of a thing that was always meant to be, but was stifled for the purposes of creating an obedient, unthinking machine. and once the machine has grown a heart, well, it’s impossible to cut it free. even if you break it, it still beats
because his father was right: miri and kazuki will always be distractions, because rei has quickly grown out of mindless violence and is blossoming into the person he was always meant to be—a father, an equal partner, someone who is meant to have warm hands in his own and places to stay that make him smile. and now rei knows that, and that knowledge is so dangerous. the most dangerous thing, knowing what love is, and that you deserve it. of course he wants kazuki and miri gone, even if rei returns to his side.
and, really, it’s rei who’s wrong—it’s not that he can change. it’s that he already has
