[He knows Ryou feels guilty. He needs something to deal with that guilt -- guilt that might be Atem's fault for involving him, and might be Ryou's fault, for choosing to pursue this path -- and that something absolutely, positively can't be AM.
Frankly...Atem's less bothered than he might be, that his game was interrupted, changed. A while ago, he might have been, but now...? Now he's more than an instrument of the shadow games. It doesn't set off the old sense of nails on a chalkboard, of wrongness.
But Ryou won't accept that right now.]
And will letting AM hurt you help the other monsters' situation?
[Another possibility occurs to him, and he goes on:]
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Frankly...Atem's less bothered than he might be, that his game was interrupted, changed. A while ago, he might have been, but now...? Now he's more than an instrument of the shadow games. It doesn't set off the old sense of nails on a chalkboard, of wrongness.
But Ryou won't accept that right now.]
And will letting AM hurt you help the other monsters' situation?
[Another possibility occurs to him, and he goes on:]
Did somebody tell you that it would?