[Mayoi peeks an eye open for a moment, as Tatsumi speaks. He's making a lot of bold claims before he's spoken with his family, and while Mayoi has not spoken up about that at all, opting instead to trust Tatsumi's judgement, he knows it will be sometime before he is truly at ease around the entire house.]

[But here in Tatsumi's room, it feels like a sanctuary. He will bask in this for as long as he can.]

[However, this admission. Ah, he'd ...gotten the sense that something had been weighing on Tatsumi, though he felt like he had no place to ask. He thinks, perhaps, this might be an opening.]

Tatsumi-san is troubled by something deep in his heart. You do not have to speak of it ...but if there is something I can do to put you at ease, I would like to know.