He considers that for a long moment. His original urge to run, to avoid the hell out of this person who made him so angry and afraid he had to hit and keep hitting instead of just ending it properly. How long it took to come prod Steve about being small versus being big, because he'd been scared almost out of his mind about it. How conversations with Steve always seem to end in freakouts and malfunctions and general upset. For both of them, it seems like.

But he keeps coming back, too. Something about this situation makes it different than whatever happened "back home". Because his imagination is still kind of limited, and he really doesn't like thinking about any other (better) versions of himself, he doesn't have any idea what that could be. He does know he's not going to avoid this asshole for two years, though.

So finally he says, maybe a little stubbornly, "I'm not him."