[It strikes a painfully familiar chord, and Dimitri desperately wishes he couldn't relate. He wants to hate Edelgard — he needs to hate her, or the weight of despair might just crush him. But even now... even now, he thinks that he wouldn't be able to say no if she were to sincerely ask something of him.

Not that she ever will. She only knows force, now.]

Would that we could simply turn off unhealthy feelings. Knowing how ridiculous your emotions are but being unable to stop them is torture that hell will have difficulty matching.