I understand that you didn't want me involved. I can understand that all too well. But I have people to protect, too. You know I'm with Team Gaim, don't you? You've known for a long time. I thought I was hiding it from you, but it's obvious, isn't it?

They're... people who care about me. They don't know me as Mitsuzane Kureshima. To them, I'm just Micchy. People who should be 'below my station', but it doesn't matter to me. Staying hidden away from other people, just because we have money and they don't. They understand my dreams, rather than what's been laid out for me.

[... He's gone too far, but considering how much he's said he can't help himself from just finishing it.]

... It's not that I don't care about you or our parents, or what you've done for me. I don't want to seem ungrateful. This just... I want to protect people who matter to me. And I do, because sometimes no one else will. So please, tell me what's going on. I want to help, but I can't help if I don't know why things are happening.

Don't make me choose who to help. Because I care about you, but I'm not a child anymore. I have to... I have to be able to make my own path. I want to trust you, but you're the only person at Yggdrasill who I trust won't lie to me. So please don't try to betray at least that amount of trust that I have for you.