A dozen crazed sick people are trying to kill you or turn you into one of them trying isn't really helped by precautions.

[If Masaomi's trying to indicate something by tapping at his ear, it's completely lost on him. He lacks the awareness to pay it any mind. Even if he did, well... Jewels and items don't protect people from crazy illnesses. Nothing could have prepared him for that.

But next time he'll do better. He has to do better. He has to keep moving forward.]