hen, and only then, did he realize... 'I'm alone.' The notion never quite hit him as hard as it did at that moment. Giyuu nervously re-gripped his sword, though his face didn't show it, his heart squeezed painfully in his chest. 'No one likes me...?' "...I'm not disliked by others." He heard himself say, without even thinking. Perhaps it was the human instinct of self preservation that had fed the words to his mouth. Though, his eyes took in Shinobu's pitiful smile. 'No one....likes me...' That revelation came with a sense of...emptiness. Dead Calm.
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