Shinya: Give me more power... Byakkomaru.
Byakkomaru: It won't do any good. That is no normal demon.
Shinya: It doesn't matter.
Byakkomaru: But it does. This is how you have always survived before. You stay aloof. Unattached from everything. Yet you still hold burning desires. When you steal the lives of others ... you feel nothing. When faced with the prospect of losing your own life ... still, you feel nothing. When you were bought to be a mate for Mahiru Hiragi ... and when you were trained against other children in battles to the death ... you survived because you never lost your cool. Though you never managed to make Mahiru yours ... you still feel nothing.
Shinya: Because there's no need to. That's the way this world worlds. Make effort to acquire a thing ... and in the end you'll still just lose it. If that's the case, the effort is meaningless.
Byakkomaru: Exactly. It is believing that which fulfills your desires. This time is the same as any other. Guren is beyond saving. Run.
Shinya: No. I'm going to save him.
Byakkomaru: What makes you so obsessed with him?
Shinya: Oh, c'mon! You're my demon. You know that!
Byakkomaru: Because he has what you do not. Right? He lives in a world more soaking in despair and helplessness than even you. Born into a family which exists solely so that it can be degraded by the Hiragi family. Saddled with a fate which decrees he shall never acquire anything, no matter how he tries. Yet...
Shinya: He hasn't given up on a single thing! No matter how many times he fails ... despite knowing that whatever he tries is never going to work ... he never gives up. It's like he's an idiot.
Byakkomaru: ... I thought you hated idiots. If you allowed yourself to be stupid even for a moment ... you wouldn't have survived.
Shinya: Yeah, I hate idiots. That's why I hate Guren.
Byakkomaru: If you hate him, abandon him.
Shinya: You know, perhaps I might.
Byakkomaru: Yes. do that.
Shinya: Ooh, yes. Let's! Let's!
Byakkomaru: But you won't, will you. You say you will ... but in the end, you don't. It's contradictory.
Byakkomaru: It's as if you are in love.
Shinya: No, no. It's just your garden-variety idolization. I completely understand why Mahiru chose him over me. I mean, he lets himself get hurt over and over like a moron ... but still never gives up! Doesn't that make you want to help?
Byakkomaru: Try to save him now ... and you will die. You haven't enough power.
Byakkomaru: You are wise. That's how you've survived. Let yourself be stupid, and you will die.
Byakkomaru: Do you intend to die here?
Byakkomaru: I'd rather you didn't. It would be a problem. I'm your demon.
Shinya: To be brutally honest, I really don't care either way. To live or to die ... in this world, what's the difference? I've never really had something so great as a reason to live. But you know? If I were told right now that I had to die ... I admit I'd have one teeny regret.
Shinya: He hasn't given up on living yet. For me to give up on it before him would annoy me to no end. Come, Byakkomaru. Devour my desires. I don't care if I turn into a demon... give me all the power you can.
Byakkomaru: All right. Then say it. Give name to your desires.
Shinya: I will never give up on Guren.
