[Umemiya goes without another word, feeling heavy. He fucked this all up, didn't he? If he were smarter, he wouldn't have come over here at all. That was the first mistake.

...should he and Endo be doing any of this at all? Is he getting in the way?

Dom drop sneaks up on him like a mugger, the point of a knife against the back of his neck. Self-doubt and confused emotions claim him, on his lonely walk home.]