Are you so eager to die? Because what you're suggesting is using yourself as bait against the more despicable end of a multi-billion dollar international corporation who is evidently decades ahead of the rest of the world in terms of biogenetic research, with scarcely a dozen of their own weapons to come charging in should you find yourself overwhelmed.

[Grabbing her by the arm and pulling her toward him. Maybe it's partially an act, but in the ensuing weeks Itto has become a much stronger person. There's a certainty that was not there previously.]

Accuse me of cowardice if you want, I'm not throwing any of us, especially you, into a grinder, to satisfy an urge to strike, and you will abide by my decisions, Saori.