I don't know if I'll ever understand how you really feel. [and she won't. her parents might have used her, and made decisions she didn't agree with, but they were there, and she still loves them. and she made her own family, a group of teenagers she misses every day. all of them... she built a family-- natsuru, sayaka, euphemia, suzaku... and makoto too-- here. she's never been without a family.] But. I'm so glad you have Ayame-san. You deserve to have someone around you. You deserve so many wonderful things. and I think she's, at the very least, a start.

[she says that earnestly, looking him in the eye.]