He nods, once and slowly. "I'd do it before you had to," he murmurs, and he means it. He thinks he could. He thinks it might be done. If it's a choice between losing it and losing this.

He wonders what Kisuke would think if he saw this. The aragami with its back against a wall.

Probably he wouldn't be in the least surprised.

His eyes open. "Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it. You know that."