...Well, it isn't my first time on this particular kind of horse. Situations like this, decisions like this-- they're made to hang over your head just as much as the thought of losing is.

What we need to do is get out of here having made the most cohesive decisions we can to help who we wanted to help, along with ourselves. Reasoning it out worked before, voting worked before, but, uh. Those might not fly in this case.

[yatagarasu and phoenix were fine options up until it was clear they were Not Good Options for the group...]