Soubi just couldn't understand this loyalty. If it came to it, he'd blame having lost his mother so early on, but he just didn't believe it ought to be this way. If Ritsuka just needed somebody to love and protect him...well, what did he think Soubi was there for?

Didn't like it there?
"I'll always be here for you, if you're willing to use me -let me in."

Soubi wanted to argue that he hadn't replaced anybody, but he was a lie, a fake, a spare. He'd replaced somebody and then that somebody had come back. And, for all he knew, Ritsuka had a Fighter too.

"If there's anybody like me out there, I don't want to know him," he said, haughtily. It might make for a good training, but what if Ritsuka preferred Soubi's double? Or what if the 'other' Soubi was stronger, or Soubi saw his own weaknesses reflected back at him in a mirror image. No, he didn't like the sound of that.

"Do you know where we can find them?"