It's not stupid, Yuri. [ She's so hard on herself, this one. He wants to tell her to cut it out, but when his own philosophy is "be kind to others and strict to yourself", there's not much he can do other than continue to shock her with his own brand of kindness. ]

We were working on a case, and when things got rough... he disobeyed orders, trying to be the hero, you know? He was brash, and trouble followed him wherever he went, but... he didn't deserve to suffer like that. Nobody does.

[ Even the one responsible for that eventually got a clean bullet to the head. Painless, compared to Sasayama. ]