Yeah, [ he huffs in response, because that's pretty much an accurate assessment of it. and of course he's not comparing it to, you know, what junpei himself went though — he'd have swapped their fates in the blink of an eye if he could have.

he leans against junpei in turn, his thumb drawing some absent circles on the side of his shoulder. ]

Nah, nothing like that. [ should he be concerned that that's his first thought about it? probably, when isn't he concerned about junpei and his experiences, actually... but he can't bring himself to ask. instead, ]

Guess it was just to show the other you weren't being honest. We tried for the first half, but the questions weren't great, so... in the end, we just invented the stupidest responses we could.