[ he gets better with time, less apprehensive as he feels more confident that he's doing alright. more certain that he's not going to stumble into hurting ryouma somehow accidentally.

that's true until the alarm goes off anyway. then that certainty vanishes in a fraction of the time it had taken to build it in the first place. izō pulls his hand back and looks down at it like he's expected it to be different already. ]

Ain't gotta say it like that. I ain't fuckin' dead...

[ no, just a failure, apparently. being keenly aware of that probably contributes to izō's frustration over it, but that doesn't justify necessarily justify his tone. ]

Y' ain't gonna wanna see it when it happens, that's all. Doin' ya a favour clearin' out early...