A kind choice...I appreciate you saying that. [Most would've seen his perception of himself as detached. Broken. There's something deeply wrong with him to consider himself...no longer human. But Satou sees it as wonderful. Leave it to the Kami of Love to see something beautiful in something else people think of as horrific.

But her answer to his question is a bit of a surprise. He'd expected some distant answer, removed from the binds of humanity, perhaps just existing all on her own, but that's far from the case. She's a normal woman who took on a difficult position. She's someone who lost her humanity, too. Instead of Dazai's emptiness, however, there is love. Adoration. It's hard to say which is worse, if it's truly thought about.

What would anyone choose, if they had to feel an overwhelming need to care, or an inability to do so? It took Odasaku - then Atsushi to teach him how to have true empathy, and he's still learning. It's a horrific decision that makes neither of their fates enviable.]

I see. I can't call that arrogance, either. We're quite alike, actually. Two people separating themselves from humanity to try to save a world that was crumbling. A small few, I suppose.

[Kami are...those who've renounced their humanity. To serve a greater purpose. Perhaps he's more like them than he imagined at first.]