Perhaps so, but since they can't make their own decisions, I'd rather err on the side of cruelly keeping them alive than the reverse.

[He might feel differently about it if his soulless shinki looked like anyone he'd ever liked... but he doesn't. So. Hakkai shrugs in answer to Grell's hand-wave.]

And that's certainly the case. But don't expect too much personality out of yours, at least, not unless we discover how to return them to their normal selves.

Regardless, I wish you good luck with him.