[It takes him a moment to refocus, but once he has it's as though nothing had just happened; he shifts a little, bringing one hand up to toy with his hair - it's still incredibly nice, as it has been for about half the week now, caramel-macchiato nice.

He lets his fingers run over the ends of it, the gesture idle.]

He's only still one of mine because he wasn't attacking me personally. He's never stabbed me in the back, he's never disrespected me. So I'm not gonna disown him over this - sometimes shit happens, sometimes my guys get a bit too excited or they decide they can handle something when they can't, sometimes they just straight-out fuck up. I look after 'em anyway, no matter how bad they shit the bed, because that's just what my position says I should be doing.

[He'll kill them if he deems it necessary and he won't have a second thought about it, if it comes to that; at the same time, he's an aggressively "ride or die" person. It's just how he is, and really? Chaotic Evil gets to have all the feelings that it wants, but once you're actually responsible for people that's when the feelings stop.

So he'll look after his guys, Hazama included. At the same time...]

Torture's over a line for me, though. I don't give a shit who's suggesting it. If we're going to kill each other, we do it like we've got some sort of standards.

I was not expecting to have to argue that with so many people.