[Perhaps it is a little mean. Of him? Or of her?, when she says,]
No, they are not.
[Hayame's friendship was not an easy thing to earn, nor was it easy for her to give. She had never had a friend before, in her own world, not allowing herself to want them nor need them, and in the freedoms and untethered nature of Kenos... she can count them yet on the fingers of one hand. Perhaps she would have used two... but she does not know anymore. It does not-]
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No, they are not.
[Hayame's friendship was not an easy thing to earn, nor was it easy for her to give. She had never had a friend before, in her own world, not allowing herself to want them nor need them, and in the freedoms and untethered nature of Kenos... she can count them yet on the fingers of one hand. Perhaps she would have used two... but she does not know anymore. It does not-]
Why must you-
[It does not matter. What matters is-]
Why must you insist upon this?
[Volunteering? Or being worthless?]