[ Mai really is too kind.. thinking so highly of her all the time, even when Chizuru doesn't think of herself as anything special. It's not like she's had many friends in her life before - none at all before she met the Shinsengumi, and even her relationships with them were a little different from your conventional kind of friendship. But even so, Mai feels like the kind of friend you don't just find easily. It's the kind of friend you only get a chance to meet once in a lifetime-- and it's a rare chance anyway, Chizuru knows. They come from different times, and it's only since they both got pulled into the Jaunts business that they met and are able to talk like this, but..

.. she's happy. Mai is too kind to her, but she's really, really happy.

So maybe, if it's Mai, then she can even say the one thing that she's hesitated to say to everyone here. It's a little scary, since maybe even someone as kind as Mai will be turned off by it, but-- she wants to try.

The other girl at least deserves that kind of honesty from her. ]

Um...

.. Mai-san.. there's something I still have to tell you. Now isn't a good time, but.. if it happens, someday, will you listen..?