"He's not regaining consciousness," Betamon says lowly.
Shinsuke stands nearby, watching him, watching Seth. The others are outside of Luke's hideout, talking lowly. Trying to think of a way to figure out what happened to Carmella, when, and how best to handle it. Shinsuke thinks he should be with them, but Seth is still prone on the table before them, Luke hovering nearby as well, and he feels responsible for this. Feels like it's his fault that his team keeps getting taken, coming back injured. He exhales slowly, kneads his fingers over his forehead and says, "Yes. Well... we will think of a way to help him."
It's half-hearted, he feels useless. Uncertain. Looking over, he finds Luke appears as unsettled in this as he himself, and it does nothing to make Shinsuke feel better about things. If we're both lost in this situation, he thinks. Then what?
"Can you tell us what Docmon did to Seth, Betamon?" Luke finally asks and they turn their attention back fully to the digimon, watching as tears fill his eyes.
"Ye- yeah, I can try," he stammers through the flood of emotions. "I... I was hiding under a table for the most part, but yeah. I... He..." It's difficult, obviously, each word a struggle to spit out, Betamon picking at the floor as he struggles to find the words to explain Seth's unending torture, Docmon's smug pleasure at each inch of pain inflicted to learn more about the human sprawled out before him.
Shinsuke cringes as he stares down upon Seth's bruised, scarred body, amazed the man had even survived some of the things Betamon is describing. Finally he breaks down, unable to discuss it any further, and Shinsuke kneels down, scooping the small creature up into his arms, stroking gently along his forehead. "It's going to be fine," he says haltingly, once more hating how poor his grasp of English is. "We will help Seth, I swear."
It's weird to promise such a thing, when none of them can barely stand the man and what he's become, but it's true. They will do all they can to restore Seth to good health, and Carmella as well should she need it once they find her.
As leader, he knows he must do his absolute best to hold true to this.
