[ he's quiet for a long moment. she wasn't kind to him, when she spoke to him after misora's death. even if she understood, she never acted like it. that even if she had betrayed someone she cared about, she acted like what he had done was infinitely worse. and maybe she did feel that way. but she also told him this for a reason. so he offers a story in kind: ]

I was asked ta kill a girl. A long time ago. I'd been kicked out of the Yakuza at that point, an' the man who was holdin' my leash told me if I killed her, I'd get back into the Yakuza. There was nothin' I wanted more at that point.

I couldn't do it -- ya know that already, we talked about it a couple weeks ago. Later, when I talked ta my boss, he told me he'd never intended me ta kill her. That he knew I was too soft, an' that instead I'd make her fall in love with me. So that when he was ready ta do what he wanted, he'd just ask me an' I'd make her do whatever it was.

I didn't even think she'd -- I'd never ... [ he shakes his head ] But I hadn't killed her, an' it made her vulnerable. Indebted ta me.

I'm glad that in your scenario Ayumu figured it out.