Yeah...yeah he was fine...in fact he managed to do more damage from the inside than we were able to do from the outside.

[He laughed...it was a strained laugh, but that kind of tactic just seemed all too...Colin not to laugh at.]

It just...shook me up. It scared me to think that someone I cared about might have just...that he might of...

[The word just...it couldn't come out, not in relation to this subject, at least not right now, so he pushed past it for the time being.]

And there wouldn't have been a thing I could do. Being that helpless...

[That word felt like a noose around his neck and he curled his hands into fists around Ibuki's, though not hard enough to hurt her.]

Dammit...! Was that all I could do...? Just stand there and hit it like an animal? I was so useless...!