[Bruce is inclined to just not heed Cherryblod, initially, but after everything that should probably not be what to do and so he does stop, however reluctant he is to do so, and listen to him.]
You don't need to sugarcoat it, you know. [Just... quietly here, and saying in a way as if he expected this, as if the inevitability was always there.] I'm entirely used to be being hated.
[And he does deserve it, he knows, for what he did to Sigrun and Cherryblod both. Even though he knows how much Mettaton meant to them, he still did it anyway.]
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You don't need to sugarcoat it, you know. [Just... quietly here, and saying in a way as if he expected this, as if the inevitability was always there.] I'm entirely used to be being hated.
[And he does deserve it, he knows, for what he did to Sigrun and Cherryblod both. Even though he knows how much Mettaton meant to them, he still did it anyway.]