[ Kiryu's more than a little shocked at the response; he'd never met this Majima, never seen the man before he'd chosen to live his life as he had. So he assumes this is his fault, that what he'd said had been the wrong thing, even though he doesn't know how. He looks less sure-footed then, and after a moment, he squats down to be more on Majima's level. He hates the bars between them. He hates that he can't reach a hand down to him, pull him to his feet.

Whoever hurt him...

He wants to find whoever hurt him and do things that he knows are unnecessary. He won't. Because that is wrong. But the impulse is there. His temper still exists, even if he has control over it. ]

I don't know what this world has in store for us, nii-san. [ Changing how he'd speak to him is as impossible the sun rising in the west. Majima was his nii-san. Would always be. ] But I know the man you become. And there's no one else I'd rather stand beside.

[ More quietly.]

Please give me the chance to prove that to you.