[Well, what was stopping them? What was preventing any of them from changing, from becoming better people? From evolving?

Maybe when we're all together... ...we'll always be like this.

One thread pulled, unraveling an entire shirt.]

We six have always done everything together. Lived together. Conspired together. But we still never talk to each other. I...

[His voice chokes a bit as he thinks of what Ichimatsu told him -- about the family, leaving one by one.]

I'm afraid that if I try to become my own person any further, that if I allow the status quo to change, I'll destroy our family... and Akatsuka-sensei's creation.