["you'll always be Ayumu Narumi to me. Yourself. And I'm glad it's you I got to know."
.....Ah.
The barefaced surprise is clear on Ayumu's face. He actually seems a little-- sad? Wistful? Emotional... no, touched, for certain, and after a moment he smiles, genuinely.]
...You really are one of a kind, Elliot. Thank you.
[Really, he could count on one hand the amount of people he could call 'Friend' precisely because.... few people saw him as Ayumu over 'Kiyotaka's little brother'.
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.....Ah.
The barefaced surprise is clear on Ayumu's face. He actually seems a little-- sad? Wistful? Emotional... no, touched, for certain, and after a moment he smiles, genuinely.]
...You really are one of a kind, Elliot. Thank you.
[Really, he could count on one hand the amount of people he could call 'Friend' precisely because.... few people saw him as Ayumu over 'Kiyotaka's little brother'.
Elliot had added himself to that number.]