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[Vash frowns. Not his favorite answer, but it is basically what he wants to hear.

He didn't really want to be getting into this argument once again on their birthday. Vash returns his attention back to the plants. Helping to dig up the dirt and place them in.]

Do you use your powers at all while at work? To help things grow?

[Knives will allow the subject change.] Only when required to keep a plant alive.

Mostly, they're capable of growing on their own.

Is it dangerous? For us to use our powers in that way? [There is so much about his own body that he just doesn't know about.]

It's not dangerous. It uses part of what we have left, though.

[Vash sits back onto his heels. Thinking over his brother's words.] Then-- isn't it better if we don't use it? Knives-- you... [His eyes flick briefly up towards his brother's black hair before returning to the plants.] ...you don't really have a lot left.

I don't.

I'm pretty sure this place won't let me die, though.

That's no reason to test it! What if it suddenly stops reviving people!?

[He shrugs. Once again he seems bored with the topic.]

[Vash frowns.] You shouldn't shrug something like that off so easily.

I'll be careful if it makes you feel at ease.

I mean... it would, but I'd feel even more at ease if you were doing it for yourself as well.

That isn't going to happen, Vash.

You never know what the future holds. Maybe one day it will.

[Knives raises his brow at Vash.] The future is either here or some other terrible pocket world that uses others for experimentation. Hardly worth seeing.

That's not the only options. We could find another place to go. There are hundreds of worlds that this place pulls from. Maybe you could go to any of those instead.

And then do what?

Live your life. Relax a little. Find some hobbies you enjoy. Start a garden of your very one! One as big as a forest!

[He makes a sort of dark, amused sound.]

So... you want me to do the thing I wanted to do at the very start? Hm? Find a nice quiet world and build a paradise there?

[..........]

Build a paradise? Yes. Murder to get what you want? No. You just took the idea to the wrong extreme back home.

Some murder is justified. But I agree, I took it too far.

No. Murder is never justified. [Vash stops his digging to look at his brother as he makes that statement.]

[Knives sighs and rubs his forehead, smearing dirt against his head.]

Yes. Of course.

[He wants to continue this argument, but seeing that dirt on his brother's head makes him laugh. He wants today to be a good day so he lets it drop in order to laugh.] You do know we're not here to plant you today, right brother?

[Knives just looks confused.

But he does find that he likes the sound of the laughter.]

Aren't we? Maybe I can soak up all the nutrients from the soil.