You're wrong, [ he murmurs immediately, staring up at her with a newly blank expression. ] People would abandon me. When I'm not enough... they'll walk away. My friends ... need me. I have to be strong for them in ways I'm not capable of anymore.

[ Yu spreads his hands wide, still staring at her intensely, unsmiling. ]

What's worse? Driving people away through my failures, or getting them killed?