[And, if "keiyuki" ever gets away with i, she'll never know.]

[He does take another few minutes to respond to her, however.]

Friends don't seem to last long around here. It's one of the more unpleasant things about this place.

[Chikusa doesn't mind being dead, or that time when there were serial murders, and he can put up with nonsense like the cult's dragging them into Heaven's incompetence... but he could do without losing people like this so much.]

[...He's anonymous. And he's not open about this vocally, or with his name attached, generally. Maybe it's alright to be a little more open.]

I would have liked to do a little more for him.