[ Ayabe's eyebrows raise a little at that, because it's not something he can ever see in himself, but he knows somebody who is just like that, who would trip over herself to make friends with absolutely everybody she could, to the point of desperation, even with an enemy such as himself.

If she were here... she probably would have fallen down the stairs and snapped her neck or fallen into the lake and got swallowed by the kraken already, tbh. ]

I guess. It takes both sides to be friends, though. [ And he's stubborn about it, because he doesn't want it to hurt more than it inevitably will. ]

How have you been doing with that, by the way? Talking to people.