[Ryuutaro would be so glad if he could just believe this and write it off as over and done with... But he couldn't. God, these eyes, this look. It was hard to stand]

You said 'I' three times... That does not indicate you feel very confident about this.

[He smiled. It was meant to look confident and strong, but there was a hint of unsureness]

Hayato... I don't want you to lie here. I want those lies to be true, but that won't happen, will it? So you don't need to do this.

[Still smiling... it's not... that.. hard]