[His chest sinks and he grimaces. He really screwed up royally, even without knowing that there are people from Bakugo's world who've been kidnapped here before and then disappeared. There's no good rebuttal, no foolproof words of solace he can offer. The statue thing unnerves him, too; it's creeped him out to the point of nightmares. He shouldn't have told Bakugo what he knows, at least not while those broken pieces are still strewn across the floor.

But what's done is done, and he curls his hands on Bakugo's shoulders, gripping firmly.]

If that was a person, they were already hopeless. One of them tried to force itself on me. We can't be expected to do nothing while they do that.

[He defended himself with force, too. After Esikko gave him a head start by cracking a vase over the statue. There was just no alternative. Or at least that's what he tells himself, but he can't afford to feel bad about it. If he lets terrible things happen to himself, then that isn't fair to him or to everyone who loves him.]

But the doctors here revived someone who'd been murdered once. So, if that really was a person, then—

[Suddenly he gets an idea.]

—then perhaps if we brought them the pieces, they could do something.