[Ryou doesn't mind Atem slipping around the back of his neck, and he minds the feel of scales under his jaw even less. He never likes talking about this. It's...as he kept saying, very difficult.
But Atem's words do help pull him back from the line of thought he's on, the self-hating rhetoric which hides just beneath the surface. It is hard to pick out a person. He always feels grateful to Atem for taking the difficulty out of that particular aspect by bringing him prey. It's hard enough for Ryou as it is, but cutting the calculus out of finding a bad person makes it easier. He trusts Atem's judgment.
And he does see the irony in that, but chooses to ignore it.]
...Thanks, Atem. It's better to think of things that way. I feel as if you always have a merciful perspective on the things I do, even if you should probably punish me for literally trespassing on people's souls.
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But Atem's words do help pull him back from the line of thought he's on, the self-hating rhetoric which hides just beneath the surface. It is hard to pick out a person. He always feels grateful to Atem for taking the difficulty out of that particular aspect by bringing him prey. It's hard enough for Ryou as it is, but cutting the calculus out of finding a bad person makes it easier. He trusts Atem's judgment.
And he does see the irony in that, but chooses to ignore it.]
...Thanks, Atem. It's better to think of things that way. I feel as if you always have a merciful perspective on the things I do, even if you should probably punish me for literally trespassing on people's souls.
[It's said jokingly!
...Sort of.]