I used to walk out to Owson's, you know, to read the papers in the headlines and see if anybody had caught the person who killed me. They never did, but after a while I started seeing your name on the covers of manga volumes. I always wished I could read them, but — I mean, I couldn't ever get my hands on one, obviously.

[She's starting to stack up pretzels into little columns on the tabletop now, five high each, with another bridging the space between every two of them. It's a miniature pretzel Stonehenge.]

It made me really happy, you know. When I heard Koichi call you Rohan-sensei. Not just because you'd gone on and did something great with your life, but because you were the one who finally found me and listened.

[She pokes at one of the pretzel towers, sending it crashing to the tabletop.]

You're the most important person in the world to me. You know that, don't you?