Yep. I was going to fight as long as I could, and then die. 'Course, you showed up and gave me a way to win, so I had to change it a little. "Win, and then die"... But that just made me even more sure. I can't live as Lucky anymore, and I don't have the right to walk away and live as anyone else. So when it was done, I was just going to be grateful for that "time bomb" letting me go. But you had to go behind my back and try to stop it--

[His hands curl tight in the second blanket, til his knuckles turn white. It takes a lot just to keep his voice mostly steady -- that look of betrayal is back, the same as crossed his face when he first heard Mikado was looking for a cure.]

--and now it's actually working... It wasn't that big a deal for me, you know. I'd already gotten used to knowing I was going to die. I was looking forward to it. You didn't even talk to me before you decided to mess that up--