I imagine she's the only one left who would ever call me that, so I'm not sure why it catches me off guard, but it does, and it hurts like a knife. Etienne will never call me that again. Nicknames from when we were very young, just learning to speak, French concurrently with Japanese from birth.

"If they did, though, Ko-ko. If anything happens to you, I won't... I can't forgive anyone who could ever hurt someone as good as you."