[ Please don't call me that, he wants to say, because he doesn't really deserve pet names.

But he hums, trying to work up the courage to not sound like a child on the verge of tears. ]

Do you... does everyone hate me? [ ...his courage was all for naught, because guess what he sounds like. Doesn't stop there, either. ] I— I wouldn't blame them, any of them, because what I did... what I've been doing isn't forgivable, but I...

[ Well, the world sure is getting mistier again, and he grits his teeth. He's not going to cry. He did enough of that earlier. ]

I don't want them to. [ Especially her. Especially Yosuke. Especially Cherryblod. ]