[ A very weird and twisted way. Thanks, Shirogane, for turning him into what he hates. He may not have murdered someone with his own hands, but in his eyes it was the same thing. ]

Mm... that's what Saihara-chan said too. Something like that, anyway. We're... we're all trying to get our footing here now. There's nothing for us to go back to, so as long as we can stay... that's fine.

[ He blinks down at his hand, hesitates before he goes to shake it. The moment is a bit too delicate to make this worse, tbh ]