[As if he doesn't know all that already. He knows too well how fucked up things can get even when everything seems to go the way one expects and how limited he is, both here and back in Hinamizawa. But he can't just give up, he can't just shrug at it and say "I can't do anything about it" when something happens, he can't prevent things from happening most of the time, but he can try to prevent them from repeating. One would say that then he should probably try to convince this guy to not hurt himself like that again, but honestly he sees no point there. Keiichi will just have hope that next time this guy will do it in his home or somewhere more secluded besides locking it.

There's a long pause on his end before he sighs deeply and it sounds just as if he has shifted whatever weight he's carrying. His tone is slightly less angry, or at least the anger is more drowned and not directed to Marco.]

I know all that. And she's strong, she can do many things without me protecting her, even if she's sent to a draft I bet she won't just crawl in a corner and cry. She will just set traps everywhere and ask for equipment for them and then trick a whole squad into falling in her traps and be defeated by an eleven years old kid.

[There's a faint ting of amusement as he clearly remembers something, though it's quite overshadowed.]

You know, if you had broad-casted yourself killing someone? That would have been better, even if you killed them in the most gruesome way, it would have been better. Because then it could be explained as you being some crazy evil guy and we could just say that everything will be fine so long as she doesn't get near you. But self-harming is far worse than that for us.

[Even if he's sure that Satoko doesn't remember, even if she hasn't seen them hurting themselves... He doesn't know if she ever saw it or experienced it before he arrived to Hinamizawa. And even if she didn't, there's no guarantee that she will remain oblivious and won't one day remember things as well.]