cranelike | ❀ Yukio Okumura

I'm not the type to push others. If you want to run, then run. If you wish to stay silent, then stay silent.

(Kind of like... how he just let Yukio run into the barrier that first week. He won't press Yukio to say or do anything now.)

But silence allows the imagination to wander. Without explanations, conclusions are drawn.

(So it's up to Yukio if he wants to elaborate or not now.)

It's... complicated. [he doesn't want to give all the details.]

I needed answers, and that was the only way to get them. [but that isn't quite the expression of someone just brushing that off as some kind of training, or answer-gathering necessity.]

Do you think I'm simple?

(That he can't handle a complicated explanaation?)

I didn't say that. [Tsurumaru could handle a complicated explanation, Yukio could explain it clearly and simply if he wanted to, but he really doesn't.]

(Just! Not going to say anything for a little while. He'll just wait patiently and let the silence hang a bit.

He's a menace. He's literally just trying to see if he can make Yukio uncomfortable.)