There it is. Shinjiro, if you hadn't left it wouldn't have been a problem. She hadn't said it, but she hadn't really needed to. But it wasn't that simple, was it? Mitsuru didn't know what she was saying, her sad little smile told him that. She wasn't passive aggressive.

"Tch," he shook his head. "Not like I can rein him in any more than you can. Once Aki gets an idea in his head, off he goes."