[At this point, Sanzo is quiet, merely listening and digesting what the other has told him. It is with a sickening realization that he realizes the others, Goku, Hakkai, and Gojyo, were probably gone. He was here without them. He would never admit it aloud, but he considered each of them precious, irreplaceable people; it hurt to be without them. Instantly, a thorny aura surrounded him.]

I see. So I've been dragged to this place against my will, away from all I know, and mutated into a kind of freak for the amusement of some kind of unknown presence...

What a fucking farce.