I have faith in them, trust them to be what they can be and to do what I know they can do. But everyone makes mistakes, everyone thinks they've failed or let people's expectations down. I'm not going to stop being friends with anyone because of that.

[Nick's let himself and other people down too much to ever hold it against someone else. He's much harder on his expectations of himself than of his friends.

While Kagerou watches him, Nick looks back, silently observing. When he finally speaks, Nick smiles a bit and shrugs one shoulder.]

I didn't think fairy tales were real where I came from, either, but I found out recently I was wrong. I wouldn't be surprised to find there was AI there, too.