Remorse in his voice isn't needed, because Koumyou has the rest of this strange, unexpected chat to pull from for context. "And you consider yourself a monster for it."

Which, yeah. That's pretty fucked up, Otoha. But so is a lot of things in Koumyou's experience.

"Would you still do it now, if you were told to by those same people? After your friend tried to break you free of it?"