[ He lets out something like a bitter laugh. Oh, no, don't, Sayaka, you've made him... ranty. Being ranty distracts him from the pain, too... ]

Ours? Yeah... ours--my team's, that is... they aren't natural. Little kids aren't meant to have negative manifestations of humanity in the form of demonic-like creatures shoved into their head and then attached to their psyche, expected to tame it without acceptance like a normal Persona-user. A Persona's supposed to be your 'other self', a mask used for protection.

Here's... a hint. Ninety percent of the kids who were part of Project Strega either died, went mad, or were turned into Shadows completely, consumed by the things. We just happened to live.

[ You better BELIEVE he's bitter as all fuck. ]

Our Personas just became semi-tolerant and trying to murder us most of the time. So we take drugs to control them.