cranelike | ❀ Yukio Okumura

If you want to laugh, you should laugh.

(Make it a real laugh, Yukio!)

I used to wonder what made the hearts of people change for the worse.

(Used to.)

Did you? [Yukio hadn't.]

[He's still talking, accidentally.]

It isn't worth it to waste your time on something like that, you can't ever actually understand anyone else.

( He shakes his head, )

Because I have a heart, I want to understand. It’s important.

It isn't about how much you want to understand other people.

Oh?

(Then what is it, Snow Boy, tell him!!)

[That's all he's going to give right now, without being asked.]

...

(?! Wait, Yukio isn't going to just tell him?)

Then tell me! (He's already impatient,) What is it, then?

Do you think I want to tell you everything?

You're a scholar. Shouldn't you be good at explaining things?

(There are just... times where it's kind of obvious that Tsurumaru isn't human. Right now, he can't seem to understand this topic. Like, what makes people change so suddenly from childhood to adulthood exactly?)

If I want to understand, shouldn't it be enough? I'm trying hard. I've reflected on my past and I've observed everyone I can in the present.