[ his shoulder tenses under ryouma's hand but he hesitates somewhere between how the past few days went and guilt enough that he doesn't pull away or shrug it off, just looks away instead.

it's not that he's worried about ryouma revealing his secret, it's more izō's embarrassment about the fact that he completely failed at what he was trying to do at the time. ]

Nah. 'Course I wasn't alone. Took a few people to do it, but it ain't like I knew the others. I was jus' tryna help Master out, y' know?

[ it feels like failing as a servant and as a friend. ]