[Souji already knows he has won, he knew it the moment he saw that small shift in expression, a fundamentally gentle man's response to reckless and casual cruelty. So he's not really arguing anymore, just following the thought to its inevitable conclusion.]

I have. I was just going to do that and no more, but then I realized how little they were. [He picks up one of them, gently nuzzling the back of its head. It opens its mouth, but it doesn't appear to have learned how to meow yet.]

I don't know much cats, but I do know anything this small without a mom or dad is just going to die.