[Ryou. You and your conditions! It's good that Ryou doesn't let people push him around, even a very very very close friend, but he sure can be surprisingly stubborn--!

(Stubborn's good, it means Atem doesn't have to look out for him all of the time, Ryou can be trusted, Ryou will protect himself unless it's a friend at stake and it looks like a trade can be made...)

Atem shuts his eyes.]

I'd really rather you didn't. Especially if I tell you "no," in the moment...I'll be very unhappy with you if you don't listen!

[Not, like, penalty game upset. "My friend is hurting and it's sort-of-my-fault-but-also-theirs-because-they-didn't-listen upset." The kind of upset you hug through instead of silent-treatmenting through. There's no threat in the way he says it.]

But I'll also try not to get hurt badly enough that you'd rather deal with that than have to watch any more.

[How's that? He'll have it in the back of his mind while he's out there that if he gets hurt, Ryou might end up hurt, too. So...hopefully, it'll end in fewer total injuries. Sure, it's a horror game, and Atem hasn't been careless since early March, but...he'll try.]