When it comes to demeaning words, Satoru is never short of them—even when he doesn't mean them.

"Quitting? I didn't take you for a coward," he taunts, hoping his sneer masks his growing alarm. Suguru's betrayal was shocking, but you can't just… abandon everything. Abandon him. "What, gonna run off abroad to laze around? Is that it?"

That's not what he wants to say. Satoru wants to say don't go. I can't. Not again. You came all this way to bid farewell, yet all he manages to do is hurt you.