They both know me as well as I know them. I already know what choice they would make. They'd want me with them, regardless of what danger it put them in.

[ He can hear them say as much so clearly in his head. Yuzu had already left him once, and he knows that guilt eats at her. And Atsuro, who thought maybe he had made the wrong choice, had stuck by him no matter what, even in the most tumultuous hours before his true awakening as Overlord.

If it hadn't been for Atsuro, he wonders if maybe he really might have thought proving his might through violent means the best way to save people. The needs of the many, and all that. It's hard to say.

Kazuya gives a small, humourless chuckle. ]

They'd never let me leave them.