gou has never once seen lui reveal any emotions besides anger and pride. so it was quite a shock when he entered lui's training room and saw the champion slumped against the wall, sweating and breathing heavily, the wall beside him clearly showing signs that someone had punched it. gou gulped and approached lui, not knowing exactly how to handle this situation. he sat beside him and asked, "is eveything okay?" lui scoffed and bluntly said, "i don't want to talk about it." gou sighed and let his instinct take over. he laid lui's head on his lap and began stroking his hair, a calming mechanism lui's brother noel had shown him. lui only flinched and stared at the cieling, tears collecting in his eyes as he finally broke down. "i-it's just.. why am i like this? why am i so cruel to everyone i come in contact with? why do i drive everyone away?" gou smiled and said, "it's never to late to change bad habits." he continued stroking lui's hair, the champion thinking about that statement as he began feeling drowsy and slowly fell asleep on gou's lap.