[Mai-san sounds too sad about it. She really thinks that nobody would want someone like her? That nobody would like her? Micchi would be mad if anyone who wasn't him had tried to confess to her, but strangely enough now he's mad that they haven't, and that they've left her to feel so unwanted!

Of course he's partly to blame for that too. But he has his reasons; he's younger than Mai-san, she doesn't know anything about his life outside of Team Gaim, she doesn't know his family situation, or his family's influence within Yggdrasill. It's so much to reveal, too much.

What if he could just keep not telling her, keep her separate from that side of his life.]

That's not true. [He straightens up to his full height again.] You don't know what people are thinking. You can't say for certain nobody is going to ask you out. Don't think so little of yourself.