[It's a surprise - and yet not, really. He wouldn't have expected anyone to take that so easily...but in a land full of sorcery and demons, where so little has made sense, Saitou has to suppose that some things are just easier to take than they might have been, once upon a time.

And it's not like there's any great shock to Yukimura refusing to be judgmental. Isn't that one of the very qualities that so impressed Saitou before?

But even so.]

I do need to tell you more, Yukimura-dono. My presence here poses a risk, and I should have made you aware of that long before now.

[There hadn't seemed much point when they were trapped in Ueda. There was nowhere else he could go, and he'd always figured that if he felt the bloodlust coming on, if he knew it was getting to be too much, he'd just take a jump off the walls and see how much damage he could do when he was beyond saving. He owed Yukimura that much.

They aren't holed up in a castle anymore, though. He's remained at Yukimura's side, even once they reached the main army and could have split up and fought separately at any number of battlefields - he's done that by choice.

And while Saitou has no intention of losing control, if he's choosing to stay by Yukimura, the man has a right to know what he's getting into by accepting Saitou's presence.]