Who even cares about that!? I knew what I was doing, what I was starting! If I cared I would have fought back!

[ Van isn't holding the book now. His fists are tightening in his lap. Anger is growing. Sora is getting him worked up. Partially because he doesn't understand how it is that Sora would say that Vanitas hadn't deserved it. He had. ]

I didn't think you were the type that ran away from things when they become ugly and inconvenient. Boy was I wrong!