Koumyou reaches over and covers some of those white knuckles with one slender, tea-warmed hand. He's been calm through-out Buttercup's words, quietly noting the shift in demeanor that he would associate with muichimotsu.

He lets Dev say his piece, waits a moment, and then calmly speaks up.

"I understand sacrifice for duty, perhaps better than most. I watched every friend I'd ever had on Earth die gruesome deaths in front of me, and I didn't lift a finger because it was my duty to not.

"I may not have personally killed them, but I trained the young man who killed Goudai Sanzo before my eyes for a full year after the murder. Because I was told to. Because it was my duty."

He glances over at Devero, and adds to them both, "Some worlds are just... like that."