[Ryou still won't look at him. He can't, because this is what he's always been warned not to do. He's wrong for wanting to be put away for this but everything else feels worse.
There's no more adrenaline rush from trying to overcompensate for his companions' choices. There's only him and his own head, turning his instincts inward, telling him the monsters want blood.]
I said I'd come back. You don't have to be that way.
[It's not cruel, it's not even half as emotional as what Atem had just told him, that he wouldn't allow it?! Why?]
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There's no more adrenaline rush from trying to overcompensate for his companions' choices. There's only him and his own head, turning his instincts inward, telling him the monsters want blood.]
I said I'd come back. You don't have to be that way.
[It's not cruel, it's not even half as emotional as what Atem had just told him, that he wouldn't allow it?! Why?]