[This time it took Ryuutaro a considerable greater amount of time to reply, but his facial expression indicated that she might as well just have removed all air around him.

Rejected? him? All he did, all he'd been trying to do was to not make Hayato feel like that and... this was the result?]

... w-what do you even know about him? Or me for that matter? How can you just go and judge like this?

[His voice was a mixture of panic and anger, concealed by a failing try to keep calm.]

What he could have said... what he could've done... what I've done... How can you even assume you would understand?
All these months I have done nothing but trying to stay with him, through everything that happened. I saw him DIE.

I gave up all I was just to be with him. How can you say I'd reject him now?

[Ryuutaro pressed his lips shut, trying to steady his breathing. He hadn't meant to say this much, he hadn't meant to lose it like this. Those were words nobody was ever supposed to hear, least of all a stranger like her. He had made himself so vulnerable in front of someone he didn't even know, how could he have been this stupid?]