Ryuutaro just nods with his signature-smirk that just appeared on his face most of the time.
"Don't worry, I wasn't expecting you to. What use would it be? A real enemy won't go easy on him either."
It felt a bit strange to hear himself talking like that. When did fights like this become so natural to him? When did he start constantly worrying over his and Hayato's life?
It's the moment in which he realizes that he definitely isn't the person he was before all this started anymore. So much about him had changed, he had already left his old life so far behind...
This wasn't so much of a new start anymore. Just another of the blurry transitions he'd gone through since the real start of changes.