[ He looks like he's considering how to answer that question. It's more that he's wondering how best to word it, not because he doesn't want to. ]

While the actual fighting was short, due to our tactics in trying an overwhelming show of strength, which was a bluff much like everything else we did, I managed to force a stalemate. He had strength, but I whipped up nitroglycerin and threatened to use it to blow everyone up if he didn't agree to an armistice.

[ Most of his tactics involve deceptions, that's just a fact. ]

I realized there was some reason he was fighting in the professional circuit as a teenager. He was trying to protect someone. His little sister, who was brain dead. In exchange for ending the conflict, I told him the revival process could save her. He agreed to stop in exchange for that.

[ He hums slightly. ]

Then I just had to contend with the bigger pain in the ass he woke up, which he helped me with. They weren't exactly a cohesive unit and some people didn't accept those terms, but getting the opposing leader on your side is convincing for most. At the moment, he's dead in a cold sleep, Tsukasa I mean. My plan is to preserve his body, petrify him again and wake him up. Gen has told me, at least, that it's successful.