"I told you I wanted to die!" Composure gone, voice distorting, the Shadow comes apart, impacting on the walls in a flash of black rage before snapping back together at Ren's side, with his shoulders in an iron grip. "What about any of this do you think I wanted?!

"All that shit you fed me about how you couldn't bear to let me die!" He shakes Ren as if he's wringing him out. "You were right. You could never be a traitor, Joker. You haven't got the balls! I'd rather be back with Shido than with you!"

His hands are still knotted in Ren's coat.