action :: somewhere sympathy is more than just a way of leaving.
[ there are logical reasons for why he's doing this, perfectly valid and sound reasons as to just why he's helping out a man who has twice now sent someone to kill him. old debts he'd rather repay to a man who'd know what they were for, another sword for the fight against that jaguar king for he knows takasugi well enough that being placed under such an indignity would cause the barely banked rage inside him to turn against the jaguar, an inability to accept failure and even, the most likely and most unacknowledged, a tie that is still there after all this time. though their paths had already long parted, their destinies have not. he still believes this for all of them.
logic has very little to do with it.
so here he is, standing right outside the room takasugi is chained up in, summoning up an apparition of their revered teacher, whose ideals had shaped them, whose words had guided them and in whose memory takasugi would bring their world to ruin in fire and blood.
improvising hair dye was the easy part. ]