"I'm sorry that had to happen to you—you definitely don't seem like a person who deserves to be treated so poorly." Seriously, how can you earn respect by being disrespectful to everyone else? He never understood it.
"Once someone knew who I was, I would expect them to treat me with the proper respect, but not grovel." He looked at her with slight incredulity at that notion. "I want to help people, not own them. But yes, only sometimes. I can't call myself a proper shinigami if everything is always handed down to me—that's something I learned and discovered on my own."
He had already taken a step toward that when he decided to find and train his own Death Scythes rather than just having one chosen for him, but seeing Maka, Soul, Black☆Star, and Tsubaki fighting against Stein on their own cemented the deal. It was there that he realized he was different and that it just wouldn't work if he stayed the way he was.
And at her last statement he looked at her curiously before giving her a wry grin.
"Yes, I am known as a workaholic. But I prefer it, really."
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"Once someone knew who I was, I would expect them to treat me with the proper respect, but not grovel." He looked at her with slight incredulity at that notion. "I want to help people, not own them. But yes, only sometimes. I can't call myself a proper shinigami if everything is always handed down to me—that's something I learned and discovered on my own."
He had already taken a step toward that when he decided to find and train his own Death Scythes rather than just having one chosen for him, but seeing Maka, Soul, Black☆Star, and Tsubaki fighting against Stein on their own cemented the deal. It was there that he realized he was different and that it just wouldn't work if he stayed the way he was.
And at her last statement he looked at her curiously before giving her a wry grin.
"Yes, I am known as a workaholic. But I prefer it, really."