KatKit

Miku's Smile (AC Asks Part 9)

But not once does he try to convince her that they should call off their deal. When he stops by to check on her at the factory (just a few hours after he last saw her), he offers her his apartment or the cave as places where she can take refuge if the real world becomes too much for her, but he doesn’t say a word about how it would be better for her to stay away from him.

That only comes when he realizes how close Lauren has gotten to him and, above all, how close he’s let her get. What Kieran fears most, what compels him to run away, to push Lauren from him, are his own feelings.

He’s not used to them; he’s learned to lock them away and avoid the pain they cause—and suddenly, he can’t do it anymore. And that scares him.

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.