He and his wife hid their relationship. When people asked why they lived together, he simply said his home was a boarding home. Of course, Akito changed the story slightly when the other students joked about staying too. Still, thinking about it now - brings back so many memories.
"I know that very well. I told Mika that, like an idiot, you were probably working really hard at your work."
'Like an idiot,' she says, well that's probably her way of standing up for him. "Thanks for that, I guess."
"Then we spoke a lot about back then and talked for so long about the happy moments, the sad times... and about the feelings, I had for you. You know, even though I really liked you a lot back then, I realized it now why I didn't ask you out right away. It had nothing to do with getting to know you better or stuff like that because I'm pretty sure I grasped all that within half a year. But it's probably because I knew that one day you'd end up leaving me.
