['What do you know' instantly comes to mind, but that answer comes immediately after. Tetsuo assumes, for better or for worse, that he does know exactly what Kaneda means by 'together'. There's no need to pursue it farther. What happens here has to be like what happens back home, if his powers are the same. Maybe Kaneda doesn't get it?
...he shakes his head. He's being broken apart, Kururu had said. Confirmation it's not all just him.]
I don't.
[But then he thinks about it. How Kaneda was still just one year older than he was, through some bizarre twist of time, but had no idea if he was dead or alive. How Tetsuo had jumped ahead a few months he didn't remember at all by the calendar here, and only because of that did he turn sixteen so soon after getting here. The realization that he's on the edge of understanding something makes an immediate and visible change; his eyes widen after that pause, finding Kaneda's.
Does he mean... it's slowing this ...whatever is happening to him down...?]
...
[But he can't find the voice to ask that question.]
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...he shakes his head. He's being broken apart, Kururu had said. Confirmation it's not all just him.]
I don't.
[But then he thinks about it. How Kaneda was still just one year older than he was, through some bizarre twist of time, but had no idea if he was dead or alive. How Tetsuo had jumped ahead a few months he didn't remember at all by the calendar here, and only because of that did he turn sixteen so soon after getting here. The realization that he's on the edge of understanding something makes an immediate and visible change; his eyes widen after that pause, finding Kaneda's.
Does he mean... it's slowing this ...whatever is happening to him down...?]
...
[But he can't find the voice to ask that question.]