Two hands dropped onto Ren's shoulders at the exact same moment.
Mayo on his left; Min on his right.
"This is exactly what he wanted, boss," Mayo said, her voice surprisingly gentle, completely dropping her usual theatrical quality. "You didn't force him to sacrifice his arm. He volunteered completely on his own, and just the other day he explicitly told us he was perfectly ready to forfeit years of his life for the cause... It would actually be a brilliant joke if…"
"And it absolutely does not matter as long as you possess the capacity to thaw him out later," Min interjected, smoothly cutting Mayo off before she ruined her previous decent line, wielding that unique brand of easy levity he always deployed whenever the atmosphere grew too suffocating.
Then he failed to not ruin his own…
