Yeah. When it comes to the people he cares about... it's the one thing that'll get Ryou fired up. He'd rather suffer a thousand deaths than let them be hurt. And the pain of loss is one he knows quite well.

[It's not like he couldn't operate without Ryou, if he could find someone else, but his own selfishness and the coldness he feels towards his host means that isn't an option. Ryou is close to Yugi, the perfectly convenient vantage point to ensure that boy's continued survival... or destruction, if Malik can truly do as he claimed and replace the Pharaoh. Even without that, this body is the most comfortable he's had. He thinks of it as his own, regardless of his original host's desires.

Malik, or Henry... Home, or family. Choices like that were surely painful to his host. Bakura doesn't care, as long as he can get closer to his goal.]