[ He swallows, and it feels like there's a lump in his throat trying to prevent him from speaking. ]

Yeah.

[ It's in his nature to defend Touma. Yes, what he's doing is bad, maybe even the absolute worst, but Touma is... ]

The spell is very complicated, but over the years... [ He'd been complicit. No matter how much people wanted to say he hadn't been at fault, Tsurugi knew he had been an active player in all of it. ]

Diva-chan, I don't mind what you are, but what I feel... It doesn't matter. I can't go against him.