Jyugo/Quotes

**(To Uno)** *"I like men, too!"*
— Episode 1 (in an attempt to look more appealing to girls)
**(To Uno)** *"Jail-breaking is my one and only hobby and skill."*
— Chapter 2

**(To Hitoshi Sugoroku)** *"These, I can never remove even if I want to.
 These 'black shackles' were placed on me at one of my old prisons while I was asleep, but no one at that place knew anything about these cuffs - just a shackle with no chain links. Some stranger from out of nowhere put them on me. I’ve tried everything, but to no avail… and no matter how many how many prison guards or researchers attempt to remove them, its impossible. No one has a clue.
 ...but for a moment I saw him though the blurry haze, I saw the “guard” with a scar on his neck. But these shackles are real, but that guard was nowhere to be found: the U.S.A, France, Germany, England, China…not in any of the prisons throughout the world.
 I’ve searched tirelessly in every prison I’ve been sent to. I’ve looked and looked and kept on looking - these damn black shackles which seem to constrain my very freedom, only he can remove. I’ve come this far neither of us has anywhere left to run. In Nanba Prison, this is the end of the line."*
— Chapter 12
**(Thinking)** *"If I can get any info on that man, I’ll do anything for it no matter what it takes no matter what form I take."*
— Chapter 22 (Jyugo determined to do anything to find a man with a scar on his neck)
**(Thinking)** *"I will not forgive him. He who bound me from freedom and tampered with my structure. I cannot forgive that man. I'm broken because of him. It's all his fault."*
— Chapter 23
**(Thinking)** *"I know... he's absolutely right... but it was all I had... For as long as I can remember, I've never wanted anything. There was nothing I wanted to accomplish by working hard or achieve something by winning. None of that interested me. So I honestly wasn't interested in the tournament at all. I probably wanted to keep telling myself to think "I want something". I'm painfully aware of what a bore I am. When these shackles were placed on me, I kinda felt, for the first time in life, like I wanted to achieve something. Until I changed into that form. But... I realized something... after being with them... Now I understand what I've been doing. They clearly know what they live for, what their hobbies and goals are. Unlike me. What kind of person I really am. They have talent, hobbies, and favourite things. I was jealous of them... but it was fun... they have so many things I don't. My world, which was nothing but gray, started to shine in such bright colors. I just simply enjoyed that atmosphere. I felt like I was completely fulfilled just with that. But the more I feel that, the bigger the presence of these feelings. They remind me of that form. The existence I had once forgotten. Now that they've seen that form, I can never go back to the way things used to be... I repeated it over and over again and came this far. I might hurt them like I did to Musashi. I'm really regretting it now. I was so eager to remove them, to find him as soon as possible. And then I just couldn't stop myself... I didn't know what to do... I don't even know myself. In that tournament, I... I can't forgive myself for being a coward. I did something that can't be fixed again. The way I didn't have the full resolve and pretending not to see the past mistakes. So I decided not to do anything else... just like before... I don't care if I can never take these off... Like Musashi said, I should've just chopped by limbs off... This is my punishment for only thinking about myself."*
— Chapter 35 (Jyugo discussing to himself about Hajime's words.)
**(Thinking)** *"Why isn't anything coming to mind... Does this mean that I've really only ever run away and abandoned things? All I do is run away being afraid of "the Man with the Scar" and of these "shackles" I destroyed what I had tried so desperately to hide, and I ran away again. Can I really wish for something at this point, when I don't even understand myself...?"*
— Chapter 36 (Jyugo questions himself on why he can't make a decision.)

**(Thinking)** *"I was listening the whole time. When they talked about the things they wanted, their expressions looked so happy and so full of life. I kind of felt like I understood. I was taking advantage of the fact that they had something that I didn't. I can't obtain anything by just "looking", "listening", and "thinking". If you want to live then don't run away - I don't want to run anymore."*
— Chapter 36 (Jyugo thinks about his experiences with his cellmates, before deciding what he wants.)
**(To Hajime Sugoroku)** *"Are you gonna threaten me right until the very end? Hajime... you said it yourself, right? Nothing will change by running away. Yet again, I'm in your care."*
— Chapter 36 (Jyugo accepts Hajime's offer.)
**(Thinking)** *"Don't be afraid. Face it head on with "this" too. Even though I know I might lose something, if there's even just a small chance then I want to try betting on it, too. I just "want" something. There's no need for me to escape anymore. The Man with the Scar, and these shackles too. I will find about them. I will face everything here in this final place."*
— Chapter 36 (Jyugo's newfound resolve.)
(To Nadeshiko Godai) *"He doesn't seem like the kind of person who would break a promise to me. That guy is simple-minded and stupidly honest to a fault. He's always getting lost, breaking down walls, running in the hallways, and eating tons of rice. Even I get totally pissed off at him. But he never gives up once he decides to do something. Setting aside his methods, Yamato always does his work in his own way...I think. So there's no way he'd break a promise or do things half-way... I think. Well, this is all just kinda my opinion, anyway."*
— Chapter 176: Yamato and Nadeshiko 2 (Jyugo's opinion of Yamato)
**(To Hajime Sugoroku)**
*"I… didn’t understand… the story he told me in the basement. I thought it was just a story about revenge… that it didn’t have anything to do with me… Even when... he said I was 'the one and only inmate who can chase after the Man with the Scar,' I didn't understand why Musashi would place so much faith in me. I didn't even have a sense of self. But gradually, I've come to understand myself a bit. I can think about my goals and way of life more than I did before. At the same time, I've come to understand just how much other people have saved me, and it's forced me to realize all the things I've never taken notice of before. Myself, others... anything and everything. When we fought that bunny robot, and it started copying Rock, Uno and Nico, I don't know why, but it seriously pissed me off. Because those moves were theirs and theirs alone. To me, the things that they alone possess seem to shine brilliantly. It felt like someone who didn't understand that, just... willfully took it and used it as they pleased. Just like that guy. It pissed me off."*
— Chapter 181: Although They Say What’s Done is Done (Jyugo explains to Hajime on how at first, he was empty, but came to finally have desire after his experiences with others.)
**(To Hajime Sugoroku)**
*"Elf and the Man with the Scar used Musashi to further their own research. And now they're using his powers off in who knows where... Miss Sanzou was the same way... Those guys just willfully changed their powers... then used them and made them suffer. That's why... when I thought of that, I couldn't help getting angry... but... at the same time... to have not even understood those feelings... makes me feel pathetic... and frustrated with myself... I had no idea that the feeling of having something taken from you and used against your will... could be so painful.... If I had just known about myself sooner... had just faced myself sooner, then maybe I could've understood those two. If I had, then maybe we wouldn't have fought and hurt one another. They understood me. No matter what kind of existence I might be, they gave me a chance to live... they believed in me... that's why I thought maybe Musashi did the same."*
— Chapter 181: Although They Say What’s Done is Done (Jyugo states to Hajime about how he wishes he could have known himself earlier.)
**(To Hajime Sugoroku)**
*"I know it all sounds too convenient. That's why I want to have a proper conversation with him one more time. And I want to apologize to him. To say sorry for... for not understanding his feelings back then. I said I'd leave the man with the scar to you, so I won't do anything unnecessary.... but I want to be involved in my own way. That's why I want to talk with those guys some more, to know more, and to find something that I can do, no matter how small! Please, Hajime!"*
— Chapter 181: Although They Say What’s Done is Done (Jyugo pleads to Hajime for being able to talk to Enki Gokuu and Noriko Sanzou once more.)
**(To Zakuro)** *"Knock it off already, you weirdo drill bastard."*
— Chapter 196 (Jyugo demands for Zakuro to stop.)