[He can't actually stop Josh from spreading it around, but he'd like to hope that he could trust the kid to be careful. Only too many people already knew, in Hikaru's opinion. Reaping was still a part of the cycle. Constantly cheating the rules was bound to generate new problems for all of them.
(And he did not even want to think about how guilty it was going to make him, not being able to rise up to the fate he had, in some ways, chosen for himself. For having friends and family who were willing to give so much.)]
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[He can't actually stop Josh from spreading it around, but he'd like to hope that he could trust the kid to be careful. Only too many people already knew, in Hikaru's opinion. Reaping was still a part of the cycle. Constantly cheating the rules was bound to generate new problems for all of them.
(And he did not even want to think about how guilty it was going to make him, not being able to rise up to the fate he had, in some ways, chosen for himself. For having friends and family who were willing to give so much.)]