[ If the conversation weren't so serious, Aiichiro would have laughed at the way Reno tossed his lingerie aside. It was rather cute, really.

The boy's thoughts were a little too serious for remarking on that, though. ]

I've done a lot of things in this world that aren't... me, not really. Some of it was entirely out of my hands - I literally turned into a monster once - but other things were out of fear or drugs or other ways the city messes with us.

[ He frowns. ]

I'm not trying to argue I can't be held accountable, not for Belenus or anything like that! What I'm getting at is... not innocence, exactly? Though that too, considering I stopped trying to count sex partners when I hit triple digits... but something more than that. Everything that is good in myself, or that is myself at all, seems to be... being stripped away.