I think if I don't - if I can't - I'll wind up leaving him in the end, not joining him. I think there's a limit to what I can accept and have anything left of who I am.

[ Aiichiro sighed softly, pushed his toes against either other, hunching further. He didn't know if he should bother saying anything, if it would just make things worse. But he couldn't be less than honest with someone being kind to him, especially now.]

I know I'm not perfect. I've done bad things in this world, things I would never have done at home. During the storm, especially, there was something terrible... but I wasn't at all in control of my body then, to a point where I was screaming in my head to make the situation stop. And during Belenus... I can't claim that for that one. I want to apologize - I am sorry - but also think that...

I don't see myself as too far gone, now, to recover any part of what makes me me. But I think if I were to side with the city, to actively say I would defend it, that would happen.