Like... [ —he ponders how to phrase it. ] I gave you a lot of reasons not to be upfront with me before. You'd usually hesitate more to act than you just did.

[ But it's not surprising. Holding someone at the end of a gun or smacking him around now and then hadn't exactly been welcoming. Nishikiyama thinks that it probably isn't pleasant for Mine to remember. Enough so that it has him wondering how things had come to be this way between them at all. ]

It's crazy that you'd want me after everything. I think I'd hate me, and I wonder why you don't.

[ Nishikiyama squints with contemplation. ]