"Kido wants a romantic confession, doesn't she? Something really sweet and cute that would make a teenage girl cry into her pillow." He stops. "It's really fun for a lot of people to think about it. Did you imagine it a lot? Did I have flowers in my hand? Ah, maybe I was dressed up, too, or I baked you a cake to ask you. That would've been something, right?"

I wanted to tell you since you died.

"A lot of girls asked me for that too, back home. To say I liked them, you know."