It is the sort of thing you tell people, Ken, because if we knew, maybe we could've helped talk you through it. [He pauses.] We still can. I know Minato and Akihiko catching you doesn't just mean that all this -- all these feelings just disappear.

[He can grasp that much by now, at least. He doesn't move from his crouch yet, and this way, he's the one looking up to Ken, like he's perched beside an altar. He glances down, nail absently scratching against a piece of lint on the couch cushion.]

Did something change? What made you decide to do it?