[ Oh, no. Sudden affection in the midst of explanation... He likes the way Gaku pets his head, so he sits there for a moment before resuming. ]

"How extreme it gets is... if I had a situation where if I could only pick one out of myself and another person, my survival instincts would immediately gear me to choose myself without question, no matter who that other person is. No matter what we did, who they are to me, and all that."