[She stares at her cart for a few moments. As a friend, she can't accept that. They both had their issues but Kei always supported her in his own way. Perhaps she was rushing into this the wrong way.]

Yes...yes I suppose it would be. [Her words are quiet. Even to someone like her, even if she'd accept those words, they were frightening. What was the reason behind them? She frowns in thought. Not at his words that could be considered selfish, no. She understands that.]

I don't think what you've been doing is harmful. Not everyone can go out on their own. [Certainly, she kept up the appearances of a go-getter but how much of her actions had merely been to keep up that appearance? Quite a few. Even if he purposefully kept out of others's lives Ai had accepted him as one of the few that she could express her own lack of ambition.] It might be presumptuous but I want you to be happy as well.

[Even if it's just a ghost of happiness.]