He looked grim. "Well, I guess if I were in the same situation, I'd rather be taken out before I could do any more damage than avoid getting my feelings hurt. I hope his last moments were peaceful, at least."

Zouichi had never really had to worry about being compromised back on his own world; he was more or less immune to N5S, and thus unlikely to become some kind of unholy, ridiculously strong Synthetic Human zombie.