[Hearing those words were like cold water dousing him overhead, Sukuna's eyes flying open at that, the breath he was drawing in a pained gasp. His grip tightened on her hands, his eyes searching her face.]

I don't want to hear those things from you! You're a god now, you're entitled to be selfish! You can say things like you don't want to be alone or in pain anymore! I don't want those things for you so you shouldn't want them for yourself.

[For someone who had shed his godhood as easily as a snake shed its skin, he still clung to some of his bad habits from those days. Making unreasonable requests and demands was still chief among them.]