[News to him. She really was way more observant than him, but she was also the detective that cops beyond their years called on when THEY were stumped.]

Huh. Shit, that all makes sense, then. Makoto talked about bein' from a few years in the future, too, so whatever Izanami-no-Okami did, it was only the beginning. Tch... Somebody's always gotta be screwin' around with Shadows without realizing how damn dangerous they are!

[But the Ren question. He shrugged.]

Ren seems pretty harmless. He reminds me of Senpai, too. But Makoto had worries that we'd make you uncomfortable somehow, as the only girl in the house.

Something about a 'complicated relationship', too. I dunno what that means.

[Yet his heart couldn't stop that uncomfortable pounding.]

So I thought of work I could take on that'd let me grab a house somewhere out there. I did a lotta number-crunching- Dad kinda shoved it in my head a lot before he died, sayin' it was important- and I worked out that I could get a place in a month or so.

But it made me kinda twisted up inside, thinkin' about it, too. I dunno why... I guess the thought made me kinda lonely? Like at first it was an option to fall back on in case stuff did somehow get uncomfortable. But it turned into an option to do good on the promise that we'd all find a place to live before Curti Center kicks us all out.

But it's still... I dunno... [He ruffled his hair and sighed.]

I can't figure it out. But it feels like a hole burning in my stomach.