*Well to be fair, it's not like Heiji had any idea Snake would use the knife for stabbings. It's...also hard to hear that you've done everything wrong and here were actually good reasons why. Why did he want to go so far for someone he didn't have a complete memory of? Because she was worth it. It was the only explanation that made any sense. He was not sorry he did that, only that he took Ema along in his madness.*

*He wasn't an optimistic person. He was so opposite Heiji that it wasn't even funny. And yet, without prompting, he did basically say "what are friends for?" Either he was just doing it for fun and he didn't mean it and honestly didn't have a lot of people around him...or he did know the value of friends, but was really bad at consideration.*

*Between him and Hershel, they were giving Snake a whole lot of introspection he really didn't want to get into. So he gives a really annoyed noise in his throat. Which leads to another thought. If he really doesn't want to hear this, he could just get up and leave. It'd be so easy. Except for an even BIGGER annoying reason is he can't do that.*

...what are you trying to be, Heiji? My conscience?