You are a gentle-hearted person, Mafuyu-san ...your words are very kind.

[Perhaps he is giving the wrong impression but ...he has no idea how to explain without explaining more than he should. Though, perhaps these days it matters even less if he dies with his secrets.]

I have known pain and despair, but I have also known warmth and love, and even now I still reach for it, whether or not I am worthy of such a thing. That is also in my nature.