Well this is devastating. Persephone shakes her head, meeting Ryo's eyes over the friend between them.

"Then your world failed you. Forcing you to make up for something you couldn't help by become a--a nothing, a shade! Everyone has feelings. You can have friends and care for someone, you can... Feelings are a part of life and you're alive, for all you incarnate death."

There's a slow building fury in the back of her mind, something that makes her ears ring. What did they do to him?