[Still feeling like that Selphie. Like the girl she was during that brainwashing invasion. If he allowed himself to be more honest with his own emotions on a regular basis, he would be able to relate. As it is, though, he's too used to throw back everything he doesn't need at the moment and drag it around without ever turning back to glance at it. He doesn't feel like that Ikki at all. And any need he may feel to contact those who had been his family, at least once, is just to show them who he really is. Whatever may happen after that, he convinces himself that he doesn't care about it.]

Guess it's too much to ask for the Malnosso to be competent at least once and do a proper wipe. With how much they love to play with our minds I would have expected them to be more efficient at this.

[He hugs her a bit more tightly, trying to comfort her, to show that he's there. He understands her, and what she's feeling, he knows it well, the initial feeling of being a sitting duck, the realization of being nothing, but a toy in the hands of people who have less morals and common sense than a kid. He doesn't tell her that she will get used to it, or at least that she will be feeling it so much that at the end it will reach a point in which it doesn't affect her anymore, because she has reached the limit and all she can do is to sit and wait for her chance to explode and take her revenge. It's pointless to tell her, after all.]

I don't suppose coming with me to the Battle Dome and smash some heads will help, right?