A mistake—that’s what this was. He’d let his guard down in the time the two of you had been working together; he’d let himself forget the one thing about you that he never should have lost sight of. You are a human.

“You’re an idiot if you think I ever really felt anything for you,” he hisses, kakugan flaring the way it does whenever he gets worked up, “I’m a ghoul. You’re a human. It would never work, you hear me!?”