Judge was taken aback. He opened his mouth, but had no words to offer in response. He lowered his head dejectedly, lost in thought.
Ichiji and Niji looked utterly calm, as though they were not the subjects of the conversation at all, completely unconcerned.
Reiju stared at Yonji in surprise upon hearing that. Those were not words someone who had lost his emotions should have been able to say. "Have you regained the emotions you lost? Is that why you can defy Father's orders?"
Yet Yonji scratched his head in frustration. "Sigh, if it weren't for those fragile emotions getting in the way, I wouldn't have kept holding back. I wouldn't have dragged things out until now just to barely finish the fight. Looking like this in front of Lord Roy is really embarrassing!"
"Eh? Is that really true? From what I've seen, you don't seem to hold back much when you fight normally." Patch rubbed his bald head and asked with a foolishly innocent look.
"I think he's just saying that because he's afraid we'll look down on him," King chimed in with a teasing grin.
Having been exposed, Yonji spun around and shouted furiously, "You two idiots, how could that be the same? Even if these guys and I don't get along, they're still my family. It would've been fine before, but now I really can't bring myself to hit them."
No wonder. With the strength he showed when he defeated Niji and Ichiji at the start, there was no way he should have been able to fight us for so long. I thought he had run out of strength. So he had been planning to hold back? In that case, besides Sanji, another little brother has become a real person. Reiju thought with some relief.
"To think