[Soubi could stop saying it out loud in front of Ritsuka, when saying it was not necessary; but he can never stop knowing that it's true. He is an object, Seimei's object; and although he is an object with feelings and desires and needs, those don't actually matter to anyone except, occasionally, himself. It merely makes him a tool requiring high maintenance at times.]

[Seimei would want Ritsuka to know not to value fighters. He would want Ritsuka to understand that only Seimei himself was worthy of valuing. And he'd want Ritsuka to really believe in the paradigm of fighters as objects without intrinsic worth.] You're a kind boy, Ritsuka, but you're not a good sacrifice if you don't understand that. [He hates saying it to Ritsuka's face, though. He hates criticising Ritsuka. Everything in him that tried so hard to believe that Ritsuka was his sacrifice protests against the notion of saying a single critical word against the boy. And it's an inestimable audacity, to criticise a sacrifice, a person, as if he had any place to speak about it. It's out of place for sure. But it's the right thing to say, it's what Seimei would want him to do.] You must realise that we are objects, and not let the society you grew up in brainwash you into rejecting the inflexible truth before your eyes.