I don’t know if it’s really your job to do that? Although I guess I woulda stopped bein’ a jackass a bit sooner if you had. But don’t worry about it, I should’ve known better.

[ his words made him pause. It was a little vague, mostly in that Yosuke wasn’t sure if he was hearing right. That Souji had been in a similar boat to him? It was only vague in that he wasn’t sure in what way? That he was... he was the same or just that he had simply felt intimidated by Kanji’s Shadow (And really, it was A Lot at the time no matter how anyone looked at it). ]

Chickened out of telling me what exactly?

[ If this is where he thought it could possibly be going, then it wasn’t like he wouldn’t understand. Yosuke had been a complete dick, after all. He knows. But if it wasn’t, then he wasn’t quite understanding what it was that made him scared to tell him or something. ]