[buzen nods - it's not like he'd forgotten. vax had told him weeks ago that this was the case and... well, buzen isn't really the type to be surprised? it's more or less deciding to be a shinigami, isn't it?

and he feels like that's probably not something that you come back from, once you take it on.]

... then there are lost spirits who need you. And it can be hard, when your loved ones want to cherish you more than those strangers that they've never met. You can't even really blame them for it.

[ . . . ]

But I think that's the hard thing about duty.

At some point it stops being something you choose.