Tatsuya cringed. His instinct was to hug Katsumi or try to calm him down in some way, but he didn't want to be punched in the nose nor to create a scene in the restaurant, "It's sad, and I wish I could have been with you. But she couldn't afford to have us both! She kept saying it was too expensive for her to look after me!" As difficult as things had been, he still considered his time at the Himawari School the happiest years of his life; the only way to improve upon them would have been if Katsumi were there with him.