[How does one answer such a question and be entirely truthful, but not at all too revealing? Yuri ponders in silence before, finally, he inclines his head.]
We would be speaking more candidly if I was not afraid at all.
[Briefly, his gaze wanders across the street, eyes alighting upon the native citizen manning the newspaper stand where he and Jayden stood minutes earlier. The judgment of people like him is not what concerns Yuri the most, of course. Rather, it is the ever-present possibility that the people of this world may back him into a corner or, worse yet, out him for the vigilante that he is before he is able to make them repent for their sins.]
In any case, to bow to that fear is to admit defeat, and I am unwilling to do so. Can you say the same?
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We would be speaking more candidly if I was not afraid at all.
[Briefly, his gaze wanders across the street, eyes alighting upon the native citizen manning the newspaper stand where he and Jayden stood minutes earlier. The judgment of people like him is not what concerns Yuri the most, of course. Rather, it is the ever-present possibility that the people of this world may back him into a corner or, worse yet, out him for the vigilante that he is before he is able to make them repent for their sins.]
In any case, to bow to that fear is to admit defeat, and I am unwilling to do so. Can you say the same?