I can see that this has not exactly turned out in my favor. "Well. If you refuse to see reason, I won't strain myself to compete with your fruitless optimism."

I take a step back, trying to distance myself from them both. I had planned this meeting with bleu, no, Ryuuji, to keep mon rouge safe, not to convince him to try harder to 'rescue' me. "So what now? Will you return to your... base, or whatever?"