All of that - the squeeze, her words - make Yuri stop, feeling an inexplicable tightening in her chest. The Tsubomi she first met was... not the same one she's seeing right now, was she? Was Yuri really responsible for that to any degree?

"Tsubomi, I..."

She sighs.

"I never gave you enough credit before... everything happened. Had I done so, it might not have ended that way. At the same time, had you not kept trying afterwards, I'd be... much worse off, now."