[He doesn't meet Alucard's eyes, feeling just so... embarrassed to admit this to him, and it's obvious. Minato's brain was threatening to aggressively shut down, to stop letting him feel anything as he tries in desperate vain to do anything but feel, but the high levels of anxiety and emotion he was already enduring was currently overwhelming that. His mind is sounding the alarm, code red, and the backdrop of Backstreet Boy's "Larger Than Life" was making this all feel wildly inappropriate.]
no subject
Yes. Without a question.
[His voice is shaky, his body trembling.]
It was either me... or the world.