[ Yuri notes the color burning her cheeks, but he doesn't remark upon it. This has to be difficult for Hayame and the last thing he wants to do is make her regret confiding in him. He considers what she's said and the potential implications, folding his arms across his chest. ]
It's natural to compare. You do it even when people are very similar.
[ Yuri has done so himself and been the subject of such comparisons, so he can speak from experience there. He has little by way of experience with genuine feelings for others, but this much he can speak to. When he was busy tolerating one noble or another's attentions, it passed the time to think on such things.
It's not at all the same, but it doesn't need to be, because— ]
But what if he concludes that he likes you best in your true form?
[ Has Hayame considered that possibility? Who she is and how she is are what Claude fell for. Does it strike her as so impossible that a man who boldly boops her nose may prefer her just the way she is? ]
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It's natural to compare. You do it even when people are very similar.
[ Yuri has done so himself and been the subject of such comparisons, so he can speak from experience there. He has little by way of experience with genuine feelings for others, but this much he can speak to. When he was busy tolerating one noble or another's attentions, it passed the time to think on such things.
It's not at all the same, but it doesn't need to be, because— ]
But what if he concludes that he likes you best in your true form?
[ Has Hayame considered that possibility? Who she is and how she is are what Claude fell for. Does it strike her as so impossible that a man who boldly boops her nose may prefer her just the way she is? ]