If it were anyone else, Chikusa would shut down the conversation completely- either with stubborn silence that's faced mafia torture or quietly aggressive arguments that would inevitably end up in him leaving. But Ken? Ken, as always, is a special case. So even though he starts out silent, jaw tense as he stares down with his eyes focusing on nothing... He breaks, after a little bit.

Not that he thinks it will make any sense to Ken. After all... They've always been fundamentally different, in more ways than one.

"It feels... like I'm doing bad by Axel-sama. If I follow another god.... like I did him." As if his loyalty weren't real. And his loyalty... That's too much a part of him. If that's weak, dishonest, fake... what is the rest of him?