I--

[He's right, isn't he?]

I... suppose you're right. There - even if I've done some things here that are going to be hard to live with, and I don't want to forget... if I lost sight of why I was trying to fight through it all in the first place, and I thought that maybe I wasn't good enough any more... then this place really would have won, wouldn't it?

[She leans forward.

[Squeezing his hands, she presses a kiss to his cheek.]

Thank you, Rye-kun.

You're kind.