"Yeah, that's what you get for idealism, I guess." He understands that feeling of Stacy as a god; in a way, that makes it worse, because Stacy's reified as yet another power beyond his scope that's playing with and threatening his life. And he hasn't even gotten his memories screwed up like Kaya.

"Who says I'm not learning to fight back? I'm in lessons. I just never want to have to use what I learn." Mostly because he sucks at it. A lot. It was only a few weeks ago that Zouichi pointed out to him how to make a proper fist that wouldn't break his thumb.