[Ren has found the core of the problem there, and Shun's fingers clench slightly at the mention of parting on better terms. Even if he wasn't sure he would have been able to bridge that divide, there's definitely a part of him that's going to be wondering if he could have, given the chance.

Eventually, he just lets out a very long, very tired breath.] I don't know if that's going to be true of any of my shinki at this point. I haven't had much of a record before now, either.

[Joker had been...well, they hadn't been on bad terms, but he's not quite sure they ever surpassed that point of Joker putting him on a pedestal. Reisi and Shun are on somewhat delicate terms already, Kotori can't disappear, and Chinatsu is probably the first one to have benefited from Shun recognising a pattern.]

I don't know that he wouldn't have put himself in danger from me if we'd gone on much longer. [Fubuki had been...not entirely prying, but getting a little too short with Shun about concealing information for any reason. Including information about Duel Monsters. He doesn't really want to know how that would have ended, if he's being honest.]