What business is it of his to go spreading it around? It's still not enough to predict me off of. [Oh, he'd wondered, but for his brother to go that far--

Thanks a lot bro. Isn't that a little creepy, to go broadcasting your little brother's crush on your wife?

But at Hizumi's words he falls silent, memories of the fight with Kanone fresh in his mind again. She'd always been like that, stubbornly believing in him when no one else in their right mind would....

At this point, he'd given up on trying to shove her away. In all truth, he didn't want to, even in the situation they'd wound up in.]

I still don't know what she--

[And that Ayumu most definitely did not want vocalized, from the way he shoves the skewer back in his mouth, biting off as much as he can.]