Koutarou's opinion has been manipulated by love and loss, it's not the most reliable.

"No, I didn't mean that. But I was concerned that they would have disappeared when the building did." Things can so easily change after all.

He smiles back, more innocently than mischievously, but maybe that's the same thing in some cases. "Perhaps I do. It would be a little like sneaking around at the university at night again."