You may have learned a lesson, but it wasn't for that. [Enjoyed it? Yes. Van has always been a fan of watching people suffer for their own self-made problems. Was that so terrible of him? He'd helped Asch. He would have helped more, if only Asch had let up on his ridiculous condition.]

Is it truly that much easier to cooperate with our captors than with me? Or is 'picking the side that wants you to live' all you've ever done? Have you always hated me so much?

[He doesn't want to know the answer, not really; but he may as well ask. Get all of his misery over with at the same time, instead of spreading it out unduly long. Had Asch always hated him?

If he'd known, he wouldn't have wasted all that time. He didn't need Asch for his plans; he needed a hyperresonance, any broken idiot that could provide a complete enough one would have sufficed. If Asch was going to hate him regardless of what he did, he should have just left him in that basement. Instead, he'd...

Played the fool. Ha.]