I understand. I understand the reasoning behind Dazai's request but that is exactly why I could not go through with it. Even if it were you or Mo, or anyone else, I could not ask anyone to lay their lives down for me. Not when you have all suffered so much already.

[ even though he's keeping his voice down (it is a library, after all), there is a lot of barely repressed emotion in solomon's voice. ]

I want to believe that we can come up with an alternative solution. Because something like that... I don't want to accept it.