"Hounding him?" Sometimes, the way Strange talks about Ignatius makes him sound like glass. It's something Yuya recognizes mostly from how other people have talked about him, with fragility. Like Gongenzaka. Mostly Gongenzaka. When was this conversation? Yesterday?

Yuya shakes his head. "I'm not saying your wrong but... that means you didn't ask him, right? You're assuming he doesn't want to talk to anyone because it's hard to talk to Gild."

That, too, Yuya knows too keenly. The tendency to interpret other people's actions through the lens of what he feels, or what he would do. It's something he's still working through, still trying to overcome.