The grab and shove isn't that unexpected, the moment Yuri's panic hikes and oh yeah he stepped in it with that one.
"Not without equipment I sure as hell don't have here." Could he tell? Yeah, probably, intuition would scream it at him if nothing else, but Yuri is close enough to breaking down already. Whatever the hell the circumstance was, it clearly wasn't a good one. (Not that any flesh eater's circumstance was good, but there's a different between being Malik-level fucked up when it comes up, and being Kratos-level fucked up. This is more on the Kratos end.)
Asch regulates his breathing carefully, hoping that projecting calm as much as he can manage will help Yuri keep hold on whatever he's holding onto.
"All blades have a synchronization rate," he says instead, explaining slowly. "Usually it's with their drivers, but for flesh eaters it's with their human organs. If it's their driver's, it's significantly better than if it's someone else's." He's not avoiding the word 'heart' out of strict respect for whatever about the question set Yuri off. Hearts are just the most common. "Most of the time, it also means they'll have less nasty side effects. Your synchronization rate? One of the worst I've ever seen." Genis' is probably worse, because his heart is actively killing him, but Asch hasn't done anything more than hear about the roaming flesh eater in passing.
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"Not without equipment I sure as hell don't have here." Could he tell? Yeah, probably, intuition would scream it at him if nothing else, but Yuri is close enough to breaking down already. Whatever the hell the circumstance was, it clearly wasn't a good one. (Not that any flesh eater's circumstance was good, but there's a different between being Malik-level fucked up when it comes up, and being Kratos-level fucked up. This is more on the Kratos end.)
Asch regulates his breathing carefully, hoping that projecting calm as much as he can manage will help Yuri keep hold on whatever he's holding onto.
"All blades have a synchronization rate," he says instead, explaining slowly. "Usually it's with their drivers, but for flesh eaters it's with their human organs. If it's their driver's, it's significantly better than if it's someone else's." He's not avoiding the word 'heart' out of strict respect for whatever about the question set Yuri off. Hearts are just the most common. "Most of the time, it also means they'll have less nasty side effects. Your synchronization rate? One of the worst I've ever seen." Genis' is probably worse, because his heart is actively killing him, but Asch hasn't done anything more than hear about the roaming flesh eater in passing.