you've been wondering where he's been... you never could have imagined that this was why he was gone.

[ established relationship ]

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Daigo would give *anything* to hear the words "I told you so". He didn't care who it came from. Jade, Kendo, *you*. He would take that blow to his ego if it meant seeing *any* of you again.

This... this *demon* tore at his brain, telling him to do things he would never fucking do. *God*, he had been so, so terribly wrong. He had never been saving the island. All he did was help this thing *destroy* it.

Sometimes, when it would give him just a bit more room on his leash, he would find himself outside your door. Well, outside of his family's mask shop. Because you still lived there. He knew you were waiting -- *yearning* -- for him to come back, but he wasn't sure he ever would.

So he watched you. Every chance he got. He would stand close enough to never let you out of sight, but far enough that you couldn't see the monster he had become.

*And it fucking killed him.*