We talked about it once, but I had to basically force my help on him to get him to accept it. [Shun lets out another lengthy hiss, closing his eyes and somewhat absently running his fingers back and forth through Ren's hair while trying to remember the exact details of that conversation.] And he still wasn't very specific about the--

[He pauses, rather suddenly, and opens his eyes again. He'd been acting like "a completely different person", huh...]

One of the things he said was that he was afraid of the part of him that would "do anything to survive" coming out. [Was it just a matter of doing anything for him to survive this time, or doing anything to stop himself from losing yet another god...?]