[ Deserving of hatred? No, it's the opposite. They're both the same though. Whether it's one death or ten, whether it's for survival or to protect what's important, it's all just the same. It's thoughts and feelings and needs that lead to action. It's pain and misery that others can't possibly understand because they don't want to. It's everything that's missed before it comes to that point because they don't want to see that either.

It's throwing away all of the parts of a person that are inconvenient, then hating them for the fact that they refused to see them properly.

Of course he understands that. He understands how naive they are, how much they want to trust, how much it hurts when that trust is breached. How it feels like everything was a lie when the person was presenting everything. None of them can understand each other. None of them can get close without hurting one another. That's how it always is.

Midori was right, but even so he hesitates for just a moment. It's always like that. It's the same as the way Komaeda always gives him just a little pause, and he has to take the smallest step back to run through his own thoughts anew. But his colleague already commenting for both of them, and he's not able to contradict that. But what would he even say? How can he express those thoughts that rattle around? ]

Believing in someone means seeing the worst parts of them... But Hiyori's right.

[ There's a bit of hesitation, but it dissipates quickly, ]

It's not gonna do any good for you to get all worked up.