[Ikki grumbles a bit at the knuckles but stays mostly silent as he listens.]

I don't want to punch Selphie. She would break if I punched her with all my strength.

[Not that she's weak but if he went all out? Stones would turn into dust, she wouldn't have a better fate.]

My mother didn't say that he was my "new" father. She said he was my father, the one and only, that he was "finally" back. I don't remember much before that, but I know she always was saying that he would be back, that he was just gone because he was very important or some shit like that. And then he met her again, and she brought him home and he did what he did the first time, use her and abandon her like a dirty cloth. My father was never a man to care about others, specially women, he impregnated at least ninety nine women... And then he killed them to take the children and use them as cannon fodder.

[He shakes his head, as if to make the memory fade away. He tenses at the question and shifts again.]

I don't care what she does, she can go and be with whoever she wants. What does it matter what I say over that?

[He's not sure what he wants, actually.]

What does to be with someone romantically mean anyway?

[The work of the older brother never ends.]