[Ryou takes the pause in stride. The fight they'd had is cast aside for now, in favor of whatever it takes to remind Atem of something happy. He deserves that. Ryou's free hand reaches towards Atem's hand and he curls his fingers over the top of it.]

I'm glad that you know it now. You've won back something important, haven't you? I remember the monsters that chased us and tried to scare us...but at least we have some good memories together, and you have some forgotten memories that were in your heart, just for you.

[Those memories were a side-effect of something unexpected that had happened to them. But if Ryou hadn't been killed...would this even have been a bad experience? He wonders.

You corrupted something precious to him. You broke it. You hurt him. You made it bad. Bad. Bad. Bad--]

...D-do you know her name?