[ Susato didn't know what to expect. For a moment, everything makes sense, yet once that moment passes, she finds her breath hitching in her throat. Between Yujin's utter lack of surprise and his question, she imagines this must be what it feels like, to be punched square in the gut.

All she can do is shake her head. She opens her mouth to say no, though the word doesn't quite make it out. ]

Before he returned from the forest, I managed to work some things out. I knew he was hiding something, and I... I got him to admit it. That those demons he was so worried about had gotten the better of him in those years he spent alone.

As for Hyde... I'd heard of the story, naturally, but I suppose I didn't ask. [ Didn't help that the one time he did come up, he spoke about him in the third person. Either way, she had put him through enough pain for one night. So she thought. ] It rather makes sense. To give the demons their own name.