"...Um."

Well that hadn't been anything like what he was expecting Kazuya to say. Atsuro blinks wordlessly for a moment or two after this revelation.

".........Huh."

Another few moments.

"...I thought we agreed you weren't going to sprout any heads out of your torso or anything."

Ah, poor humor, Atsuro's solution for every dilemma.

"That doesn't seem right. You were supposed to be the winner. The master. ...Mastery entails everyone else shutting up, doesn't it?"