[ ...Yuri almost felt bad. He was really that desperate to see this through, wasn't he? All for the sake of Ange...but it was precisely because it was for her sake that he answered like that in the first place. Yuri turned his gaze away again, looking down at the ground. ]

I don't really get how your world works but...even if that was possible, I'm gonna have to say no. She still wouldn't deserve to deal with that sort of thing, on top of everything else. [ To be honest, he didn't believe Battler could really do anything like that either, but nothing he was gonna say would sound like a convincing argument against that. It was better to just tell the truth. ]

When you're gone, I can be there to help her. But that's all I can be.