Krouse takes note of the frown. It seems like that's what it takes to get a rise out of Deku: anything that edges up on the territory of who can be saved and who can't.
What he says sounds like a decent limit. Krouse wonders where he picked it up. Was it a mentor, a parent, a friend? Repetition from any or all of them trying to bring the point home? As lip service goes, Krouse can almost believe that he's trying to mean it.
But at the start of their little talk, Deku said the goal should always be saving everyone, and Krouse thinks he actually believes Deku on that. Even if he says he accepts it can't be done, it's the stubborn, unextinguishable hope that you might be wrong that gets you.
Krouse knows that much from experience.
"Yeah," he says, quietly, "Good luck with that."
When they're back on paved roads, Krouse gives Deku a little wave and a friendly enough smile as he murmurs a few necessary words of goodbye before he peels away. He doesn't have anything in mind except being somewhere Deku isn't, so he can light up his next smoke in peace.
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What he says sounds like a decent limit. Krouse wonders where he picked it up. Was it a mentor, a parent, a friend? Repetition from any or all of them trying to bring the point home? As lip service goes, Krouse can almost believe that he's trying to mean it.
But at the start of their little talk, Deku said the goal should always be saving everyone, and Krouse thinks he actually believes Deku on that. Even if he says he accepts it can't be done, it's the stubborn, unextinguishable hope that you might be wrong that gets you.
Krouse knows that much from experience.
"Yeah," he says, quietly, "Good luck with that."
When they're back on paved roads, Krouse gives Deku a little wave and a friendly enough smile as he murmurs a few necessary words of goodbye before he peels away. He doesn't have anything in mind except being somewhere Deku isn't, so he can light up his next smoke in peace.