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Giving himself time to calm down, Tomo reached out with his magic, sealing all the doors out of the hallway. "Let's talk, ne?" He said as if it were a suggestion, but in reality it was a full out command. "Hooow is walking out on him going to help? Pretty cruel of you to take away the one person he's ever lived for, doncha think?" He leaned against a wall, rubbing his smarting cheek as if he'd just bumped into something. "I mean. You obviously don't want a perfect husband, but he's obviously not perfect. I mean, you're all 'I want to leave'." He said, recreating her voice exactly, "So he must be a pretty shitty husband."

Baizou was shaking by the time the children walked into the room. He looked up at them, tears staining his cheeks. "I do not know. I-I have to make love me b-because I will die without her!" He continued through the book, nearly ripping pages out for how fast he was turning them.

They grabbed him and both hugged him tightly while purring softly. They didn't like hoe he was acting so they were going to try and cheer him up. Sencu and Rentue smiled happily and nuzzled his face. "You won't die...and We bet this person really loves you." They said to him.

Arlen gasped and covered his eyes as if a monster was there to steal his right now. "Monsters can do that?" he asked with a mixture of awe and fear.

Guan sighed. He didn't want to give Lily false hope, but he didn't want her to give up when there really was a chance, slim though it may be. "I said it was the simplest explanation," Guan said softly after a while. "I didn't say it was the most accurate."

"Yeah!" Arlen said at the prospect of food, or maybe just chocolate milk, the thought of a monster stealing his eyes already gone from his mind.

Guan sat down on the bed next to her and spoke softly. "I am not promising you anything because I can't be sure, but there is a small chance that the boy downstairs is Arlen and if that is true then there is a another small chance that he will revert to who he was before. For now though it is best that he be treated as an independent boy who happens to have the same name. Alright?"

Baizou was somehow oddly comforted and he shrugged, "I am wondering how true that is." He murmured, ears limp.

"I'm beginning to wonder who's the blonde one, here." Tomo replied, tapping his chin in thought. "Because even I was smart enough to get that he wants you and only you. Get. It? You don't want a perfect husband, so why would he want a perfect wife?" He glanced to his open door, knowing Baizou was hearing every word. "I know exactly what he'd say, but I think it'd be a little tactless of me to impersonate him... Ne, Bai! Stop turning yourself into an ogre or whatever and c'mere! I'm tired of fighting your fight!" He called.

Seconds later, Baizou passed through the barrier into the hallway, black smoke trickling from his shaking hands. He held them behind his back and got to his knees. "E-Elisan," He began, voice dark and quavering. "Everything you said about me is a lie. I am not perfect... The perfect man would make his wife feel loved and not inferior. A-As I said before. I do not like it when you say I am perfect because it is we who are perfect." He finally worked up the courage to look her in the eyes, "I hate perfection. I want to eat your burnt food and clean up your messes and tend to your wounds and catch you when you fall." He sniffed sharply, "You do not know what I am like without you. My powers are demonic and I absorb souls to become stronger. With my last memory I acquired I discovered that I was intended to be a creature of evil. You are the goodness in me, Elisan."

"What's peanut butter?" Arlen asked, holding Cerri's hand and undoubtably heading to the kitchen.

"I know you do," Guan said, hugging Lily and rubbing her b"ack. "I can't say for sure, but I believe he was afraid of how you would react. You know he never could stand the thought of you in pain and being told that he was going to die would be very painful."

"It's worse, knowing that he knew." Lily whispered, squeezing her eyes shut tighter, clinging to him. "He carried around on his own... I wish that I had known. I wouldn't have been so awful to him... I would have given him a better kiss before he went outside... I would have made sure to tell him that I loved him before he flew off..."

"Oh, well that settles that then." Cerri decided, smiling down at him. "We'll let you eat some straight out of the jar... but don't tell Guan." she teased, winking at him. When they got to the kitchen, she let go of his hand to get the jar, then grabbed a spoon as well, getting a nice dollop of peanut butter on it before handing it to the boy. "Here, try that Arlen. If you like it, you can have PB and J."