Of course, he had to word it that way. Bakura bristled, stubbornness rising.

'If you could, it'd keep us both from being killed,' he returned. But it wasn't as if the Voice actually did anything to help that wasn't backstabbing or just trickery... he wouldn't be surprised if the reason that the Voice had been so vehement about not working with him was that he couldn't. The resonance had broken quickly both times, after all...