I don't care if it frightens you or not. I wouldn't care if I was blamed for you death either if it didn't mean becoming enslaved to someone else. [ His voice rising a touch, he's insistent. ]
I care that there's a possibility you could rise and everything I've done up until now would have been for nothing.
[ Natsuno glowers but makes no further comment. That was...fine, he had already accepted as much by knocking on Erhard's door. ]
Maybe. But it's not a necessity for me to anymore. [ The hunger will return in a few days, but it'll be a lot easier to deal with. Now his only excuse for avoiding investigation will be his social reclusiveness. ]
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[There's still that unblinking, intense stare, though Erhard's dilated pupils soften it somewhat.]
Becoming like you doesn't frighten me. I don't want you to be blamed for my death, that's all.
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I care that there's a possibility you could rise and everything I've done up until now would have been for nothing.
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[How many people would distrust Natsuno simply based on what he is? Erhard's not like that, he'd be a hypocrite if he was.]
Are you going to stay on the fringes of the group during trials, waiting for an opportunity?
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Maybe. But it's not a necessity for me to anymore. [ The hunger will return in a few days, but it'll be a lot easier to deal with. Now his only excuse for avoiding investigation will be his social reclusiveness. ]