[Sanji doesn't flinch back from the touch, even with his shoulders shaking the entire time, tears leaking out of the cracks he'd been keeping hidden for weeks. It takes all his concentration, but each quiet hiccup is swallowed before he starts bawling in earnest.
It still takes a while before he calms down, or has at least stops crying. And the end result is a look of shame -- not for his tears, exactly, just that this had to have happened at all.
What would his crew think of him, seeing how far he's fallen...]
Even still...
[-- No. He doesn't finish that sentence. The images of Beauty and Beast flash through his head, only children, and Sanji bites the inside of the cheek, realizing that he can't profess the desire to be punished if he won't apply the same logic to kids.
Huffing a sigh. He glances at Souji, but then loses his nerve and stares at the floor]
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It still takes a while before he calms down, or has at least stops crying. And the end result is a look of shame -- not for his tears, exactly, just that this had to have happened at all.
What would his crew think of him, seeing how far he's fallen...]
Even still...
[-- No. He doesn't finish that sentence. The images of Beauty and Beast flash through his head, only children, and Sanji bites the inside of the cheek, realizing that he can't profess the desire to be punished if he won't apply the same logic to kids.
Huffing a sigh. He glances at Souji, but then loses his nerve and stares at the floor]
Do you know if anyone else knows...?