"I don't mean it morally. I killed the closest thing to family I had when I was two months old," Jedao mutters. "And it was the most moral thing I've ever done. But Gojyo isn't...like that. Hakkai loves him, and he loves Hakkai too, even if it takes him another five Earth years to admit it. I can't be the reason he's not in Hakkai's life, even if he never gives me a chance. I can't -" I can't bear that, he wants to say, melodramatically, romantically. But he knows he can bear quite a lot.

"I don't want that," he says instead, quieter.