[If Takatora had bothered to stop and think about what had just happened, he would have been taken aback by Mitsuzane's words. He would have expected them, of course, as any parent expects rebellion from their child at one point or another, but then he would have done his best to remain calm while handling the situation.

Unfortunately, Takatora doesn't stop to think.

It takes only seconds for Takatora to cross the room, grabbing a handful of Mitsuzane's shirt and shoving him against the wall. It's a flicker of the authority he carries as Zangetsu, the feeling he'd carried when fighting Gaim. It was also a side of himself he'd never wanted to expose Mitsuzane to, but what he should and shouldn't be doing hasn't quite sunk in yet.]

When he's not here, I may as well be. Do not fight me, Mitsuzane. For as long as you are here, you will listen to me.