[Small things can sometimes be the biggest hint at what a person is like: a look in their eye, a reaction, a preference. Yu collects these small things from people, each of them building a larger picture, not just of the person in question, but humans as a whole. What are people like? What's in their nature? That's what Understanding is; the fact that it took him so long to figure it out means that Yu doesn't want to take it for granted ever again.
It's...still a struggle. Bonds are important, but the pain that comes with losing them is very, very real.
... That's a point for another time.
The view is as dazzling as Akira promised, a bioluminescent showstopper that feels like it should come out of a dream. There's no other way to describe it besides breathtaking. A hidden treasure indeed.
But it's not the view that leaves Yu speechless. It's the picnic blanket neatly laid out in the middle of the clearing. The humbleness of the ramune. How intentionally the scene is set. The fact that someone would do...all of this. for him. on purpose.]
I-- [there's a quiet sense of awe in his voice; he squeezes the other wild card's hand, though it's hard to say whether that's intentional or not.] ... Akira...
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It's...still a struggle. Bonds are important, but the pain that comes with losing them is very, very real.
... That's a point for another time.
The view is as dazzling as Akira promised, a bioluminescent showstopper that feels like it should come out of a dream. There's no other way to describe it besides breathtaking. A hidden treasure indeed.
But it's not the view that leaves Yu speechless. It's the picnic blanket neatly laid out in the middle of the clearing. The humbleness of the ramune. How intentionally the scene is set. The fact that someone would do...all of this. for him. on purpose.]
I-- [there's a quiet sense of awe in his voice; he squeezes the other wild card's hand, though it's hard to say whether that's intentional or not.] ... Akira...