"You keep saying you're not needed or not a priority even if I say otherwise," Yuya points out glumly. It's hard to believe that he cares when it seems like nothing Yuya says it heard, when nothing he feels is given credit.

He sucks in a sharp breath, trying to steady himself. "What I mean is... if that's your decision, then why let it get that far? Do you want the last time we see each other to be something like that?"

Yuya won't ask him to stay. He's made his place clear. What he doesn't understand is how Strange can be all right with letting it reach the breaking point when he's already decided where his investment in the rest of them ends. They both know the impending dangers and consequences. Hoping things won't get that bad is, by this point, naive even for Yuya.