[There are very few things Tobias is firmly set in. This means that Tobias is, of course, usually a passive thing, taking orders or believing whatever he's told. But when you get to something like this, something he's sure of, he sets his heels in.]

I don't care if it does! I deserve anything anyone does to me! Everybody wants me to die, and I should have! I'm just a monster for everything I've done!

[He's broken out into tears at this point, and he starts wiping at his eyes hard, shoulders shaking and hiccuping. When Espio speaks again, he doesn't look up or say anything, and just nods.]