[He will have questions for Kuro - the real one - when this is done. Even though he knows that this person is only a phantom of the real one, a fake, he can't find it in himself to feel any kind of revulsion towards him... even having him so close as this.
Knowing that he will end this person's life this day, whether in the next minute or in a few hours, provokes that instinctive level of care that he gives to all lost or wandering spirits.]
Then rest.
[If that's what he wants - all he wants - then it can be easily provided. Ash nuzzles into his hand like that and it's so very much like exactly what Kuro would do that he can't help the fondness that wells up in him.
He presses a kiss to the phantom Kuro's forehead.]
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Knowing that he will end this person's life this day, whether in the next minute or in a few hours, provokes that instinctive level of care that he gives to all lost or wandering spirits.]
Then rest.
[If that's what he wants - all he wants - then it can be easily provided. Ash nuzzles into his hand like that and it's so very much like exactly what Kuro would do that he can't help the fondness that wells up in him.
He presses a kiss to the phantom Kuro's forehead.]
My offer isn't going anywhere.