He trailed off, a shade reluctant to look her in the eye once she backed off. Embarrassment being pretty much his ground state of existence, he wasn't about to judge. It wasn't that. And he absolutely, positively, objectively wasn't the asshole who'd throttled her in the first place, so it couldn't be guilt, not as such. He didn't know whether there was a word for it.
(Someone like Souji probably did.)
Presently, he hung his head. "Sorry," he said. "I wish I ran into you guys earlier."
no subject
He trailed off, a shade reluctant to look her in the eye once she backed off. Embarrassment being pretty much his ground state of existence, he wasn't about to judge. It wasn't that. And he absolutely, positively, objectively wasn't the asshole who'd throttled her in the first place, so it couldn't be guilt, not as such. He didn't know whether there was a word for it.
(Someone like Souji probably did.)
Presently, he hung his head. "Sorry," he said. "I wish I ran into you guys earlier."