And Toushirou was the type to try and use all the methods that involved him doing it on his own before going for any help. He'd learned a lot of things at the Institute, but asking for aid was something he'd never really mastered. He was the smart one, the diligent one, the responsible one. He was a team leader, had to be the one to handle problems when they came up.

... He wasn't a team leader anymore; he'd forgotten that again, just for a second. It all hurt more than it should.

But he shoved that down. "Right."