They wouldn't appreciate my finer points anyway.

[Read: being mushy as fuck.

The elbow isn't a new version of ending this, but maybe it's the best way. All harmless and play, rather than the game's temporary tendency to end in some form of emotional devastation.

But then something snags in Alucard's thoughts, and he elbows back once more.]

There is something I've been meaning to ask in all of this, and I realize that it was probably for my own protection.