It worked. I was afraid, at first, that I would be unable to oppose him, having owed him my life and livelihood for so long... but after seeing what sort of man he truly was--someone obsessed with his own wealth, willing to exploit and manipulate others for his own personal gain, a man who watched my mother die only so he could inherit her greatest work and pass it off as his own--

[yusuke's voice has taken on an icy tenor]

That man was not someone I was willing to forgive. We stole his heart, and he came to know remorse for the years of atrocities he had committed. He's in prison now, where he belongs.