"What was I supposed to do when you destroyed a third of my Cores?!"

He couldn't hold his body together on his own... Eiji saw that. And it's not as if he'd ever agreed to give him back. Maybe he would if he didn't need him anymore, but a certain idiot had gone and made that impossible.

And if Eiji wants to think about denial... "And what about before all that? You could have tried to find a way to get rid of them, but no, you kept using them anyway. Don't tell me that's my fault."