[ Their actions are soulless, derived from corruption like the beasts of this world. He can understand their rampage by looking at it from that vantage point, and does not blame them any more than he would a child having a tantrum when their emotions got too big for them. Except their tantrums steal lives, requiring immediate intervention. Shouto may not blame the Akuma they faced for what it did, but neither can he forget the carnage of that day. It stayed with him long after that fight having never been exposed to that kind of grotesque before Trench.
Unlike Allen, the Akuma is not precious to him. He did not know it, in life or in death, but that didn't mean he wouldn't put his life on the line to stop it. Protect others from it, and protect it from others. Even if his encounter with the Akuma from Allen's world turned out different than he expected. Even though Allen explained it to him, he still can't fathom ever choosing to destroy it. It goes against years of entrenched indoctrination. Heroes protect. They don't kill. And even though they didn't kill the Akuma, that's what it felt like to him. Unable to see the soul released. His experience saving that Akuma wasn't the peaceable end Allen witnessed with his eye.
The Akuma killed. Was out of control. They tried to stop it. And it was destroyed in the end. The soul within released, but that's not what he witnessed. The ending he saw was not a kind one. For someone like him, who knows nothing of Allen's world, it's difficult to comprehend such an ending. Rationally, he understood what happened in the end. That it was good but he did not feel it. Not the same way Allen did. ]
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Unlike Allen, the Akuma is not precious to him. He did not know it, in life or in death, but that didn't mean he wouldn't put his life on the line to stop it. Protect others from it, and protect it from others. Even if his encounter with the Akuma from Allen's world turned out different than he expected. Even though Allen explained it to him, he still can't fathom ever choosing to destroy it. It goes against years of entrenched indoctrination. Heroes protect. They don't kill. And even though they didn't kill the Akuma, that's what it felt like to him. Unable to see the soul released. His experience saving that Akuma wasn't the peaceable end Allen witnessed with his eye.
The Akuma killed. Was out of control. They tried to stop it. And it was destroyed in the end. The soul within released, but that's not what he witnessed. The ending he saw was not a kind one. For someone like him, who knows nothing of Allen's world, it's difficult to comprehend such an ending. Rationally, he understood what happened in the end. That it was good but he did not feel it. Not the same way Allen did. ]