[Maybe it's even pettier that Hayame almost wants to stay angry, if it meant he might find it displeasing. At least then she would have a reaction from him that wasn't disturbingly smooth and composed, like how he'd somehow managed to keep his cool despite the battles raging around them in Achamoth.
He says it would be a poor idea, and maybe it would. Maybe she doesn't give a damn if it would. A demon... a demon might have it in him to actually kill her, and end this misery once and for all. She'd tried it herself, in Horos. Tried to throw her shard to the ground and shatter it, but every time... she'd been overcome with such a wave of nausea and sick that she'd gagged and been overtaken by some cruel self-protection of the soul, but she'd tried and tried-
cw: suicidal ideation 1/2
He says it would be a poor idea, and maybe it would. Maybe she doesn't give a damn if it would. A demon... a demon might have it in him to actually kill her, and end this misery once and for all. She'd tried it herself, in Horos. Tried to throw her shard to the ground and shatter it, but every time... she'd been overcome with such a wave of nausea and sick that she'd gagged and been overtaken by some cruel self-protection of the soul, but she'd tried and tried-