[He hadn’t expected that. Maybe he should have. Shiina-san has always been very sweet to him even when he acted like he wanted to eat him. It’s something he feels very underserving of, unsurprisingly, but it also touches him.]

[He can feel the tears wanting to come, so he tries to hold them back. He smiles instead.]

Thank you …Shiina-san. Perhaps …I will take you up on that sometime.

[Now doesn’t seem right, they’ve reunited and have a task at hand. He can sort out his emotions later.]

Ah… well, you are the only one I’ve met thus far, and you do not recall that place, so perhaps there are others. There were quite a few of us from ES there.