Where Fugo is concerned, it's a...complicated matter. He was the first I chose to join my team, but he was the only one to stay behind that night in Venezia when I betrayed the former boss.
I don't begrudge him for making his choice, if that's what you mean to ask. The others...
[Bruno sighs a little.]
They're not wrong to be angry with him or even to reject him. His decision was a betrayal to me. I didn't order him to follow and he disobeyed, but the others expected that his loyalty and trust in me should have been greater than his fears or whatever reservations he had about the task ahead of us like it was for them. And for that, the others see him as a traitor. Worse than that, they see him as a coward. Neither of those things are acceptable in our gang and I leave it to you to figure out what happens to cowards and traitors.
[Spoilers: death.]
But those aren't my feelings towards him or even Giorno's. I won't tell you whether or not you should accept him, or even whether or not you should like him, but he is still part of this family as far as Giorno and I are concerned until he says he wants out. I still have trust in him.
[But Bruno's not saying he trusts Fugo as much as he used to. He's not taking things to the extreme like the others out of respect for Fugo's ability to decide his own fate, but that doesn't mean damage wasn't still done. It doesn't mean it didn't still hurt to leave him behind because he chose to stay. There simply wasn't time for dwelling on it or worrying about it. It was meant to be something to dealt with later by Giorno, not Bruno because by then it was too late and Bruno knew that well enough. So he tucked that away in his heart, beneath what needed to be done and adding in later his grief for Abbacchio and Narancia.]
But if he says he wants out, he will walk away freely.
[It's not something Bruno knows for certain that Giorno would allow, but he'd like to believe that would be the case. At the very least, Bruno would never stop advocating for Fugo even after everything.]
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I don't begrudge him for making his choice, if that's what you mean to ask. The others...
[Bruno sighs a little.]
They're not wrong to be angry with him or even to reject him. His decision was a betrayal to me. I didn't order him to follow and he disobeyed, but the others expected that his loyalty and trust in me should have been greater than his fears or whatever reservations he had about the task ahead of us like it was for them. And for that, the others see him as a traitor. Worse than that, they see him as a coward. Neither of those things are acceptable in our gang and I leave it to you to figure out what happens to cowards and traitors.
[Spoilers: death.]
But those aren't my feelings towards him or even Giorno's. I won't tell you whether or not you should accept him, or even whether or not you should like him, but he is still part of this family as far as Giorno and I are concerned until he says he wants out. I still have trust in him.
[But Bruno's not saying he trusts Fugo as much as he used to. He's not taking things to the extreme like the others out of respect for Fugo's ability to decide his own fate, but that doesn't mean damage wasn't still done. It doesn't mean it didn't still hurt to leave him behind because he chose to stay. There simply wasn't time for dwelling on it or worrying about it. It was meant to be something to dealt with later by Giorno, not Bruno because by then it was too late and Bruno knew that well enough. So he tucked that away in his heart, beneath what needed to be done and adding in later his grief for Abbacchio and Narancia.]
But if he says he wants out, he will walk away freely.
[It's not something Bruno knows for certain that Giorno would allow, but he'd like to believe that would be the case. At the very least, Bruno would never stop advocating for Fugo even after everything.]