[ souji shifts on the couch to turn more towards her. he appreciates being to just be able to talk about tatsuma and why he's with him. even if they haven't been together for long, it's good for him to just to know why he asked tatsuma out in the first place and why souji would do all this for him. ]

We've only been dating for a few months now but he's... great. He's on the quiet side though and is rather passive, but he's kind. Thoughtful and always willing to help if he can.

[ so for tatsuma to suddenly change, to be so filled with vengeance to go out and nearly murder a man... it is a complete 180 from how he normally is ]

... I suppose what drew me in the first place was that he understood. He knew what it was like to be constantly moving, to have absent parents, and to lose people with each move. To feel like you're isolated from everyone else in an environment like that, I never truly thought I would have any friends or I'd make meaningful relationships. It was part of the reason why I tried to separate myself from others in Recolle when I first arrived, why I never truly reached out, but Tatsuma... He told me once that even if I moved away again, left the city, he would still keep in contact with me and that we'd still be friends.

It was... touching.