"Because you needed to learn your lesson."

"I warned you that if you kept your weakness a secret, sooner or later, it would come back to haunt you."

"Oh."

"Of course, if you'd been in any real danger, I would have intervened. You're just lucky that it happened here, in the middle of town, in broad daylight, and not out on the battlefield."

"That... wasn't... my weakness."

"I beg your pardon?"

"That wasn't my weakness... That was just... Fang... being a bitch."

There was more?

"I see." Shiroe thought for a moment, but then realized that more thinking wasn't necessarily going to help.

"We'll talk about this later. Right now, let's get you hydrated."