[Mia, no, that's hell you're walking into!!! Ogata considers her for a long moment, before deciding to answer her honestly.]
I didn't intend to make him suffer. If I wanted to simply hurt him I would have retaliated when he hit me in the first place. The problem was that he wasn't afraid of me so I felt the need to make it clear to him what sort of person he was dealing with. When I heard that they have a way of reversing death it seemed like an obvious choice.
[There's that hand on his head again. Smoothing back perfectly neat hair. It's really starting to feel like some sort of stress tic.] ... I just had no way to account for the sort of person he ended up being.
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I didn't intend to make him suffer. If I wanted to simply hurt him I would have retaliated when he hit me in the first place. The problem was that he wasn't afraid of me so I felt the need to make it clear to him what sort of person he was dealing with. When I heard that they have a way of reversing death it seemed like an obvious choice.
[There's that hand on his head again. Smoothing back perfectly neat hair. It's really starting to feel like some sort of stress tic.]
... I just had no way to account for the sort of person he ended up being.