Why should you be alone, when there are people willing to set the past aside, who want you by their side?
[Van isn't, truthfully, able to forgive him, nevermind willing. For all of the ways in which he feels Asch wronged him, he'll carry a grudge for the rest of his life. But why should that matter, when there are such things they could accomplish? ...Things that Van knows he cannot achieve alone.
His wayward student can make it all up to him, if only he'd come to his senses.]
Everything we wanted to accomplish -- we both wanted to accomplish -- is within our reach, if we work together. Is that worth nothing to you? Or do you find me so untrustworthy that it isn't worth the risk?
...If you do, it does make me wonder. Do you think I left my most capable adversary unwatched? [The person he's put the most effort into watching being, of course, Asch himself.]
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[Van isn't, truthfully, able to forgive him, nevermind willing. For all of the ways in which he feels Asch wronged him, he'll carry a grudge for the rest of his life. But why should that matter, when there are such things they could accomplish? ...Things that Van knows he cannot achieve alone.
His wayward student can make it all up to him, if only he'd come to his senses.]
Everything we wanted to accomplish -- we both wanted to accomplish -- is within our reach, if we work together. Is that worth nothing to you? Or do you find me so untrustworthy that it isn't worth the risk?
...If you do, it does make me wonder. Do you think I left my most capable adversary unwatched? [The person he's put the most effort into watching being, of course, Asch himself.]