[In order to debase oneself, one must have set certain standards in the first place. Not that Seiji has no standards (despite what many have implied), but the thing about being willing to do just about anything to get what you want is that floor is very, very low.]

[Surely, Natori already knows that deep down, but needs it hammered home. Like many things about the Matoba, it simply came with the territory. Literally and figuratively.]

[It's because he couldn't accept that baseline in the first place, that they are like this now.]

Haha. [He reacts like it's a joke, like everything Natori says always seems to be, to him. But he isn't thinking of it in the same way as Shuichi. He's been here long enough to not even consider the possibility of Natori being allowed to leave so easily.] Yes, you're too new to have been claimed just yet. But that is a curse that you will come to know very soon.

I wonder which one will claim you? I'd like to say I have my guesses, but I don't know if you could survive that one for long. [Too soft-hearted, he dangles it like a threat, but he is already thinking ahead of how to maneuver Shuichi so as to counteract it. This is really a problem.]