Thank you. For this and your advice. [The reply is warm. It's like sitting before the hearth as the fire's warmth seeps into your skin and settles there. It's not invasive, just...warm. Komaeda feels so good about himself right now that he couldn't stop the leak if he tried.

It's one step in the long war against the feelings he grew up with.]

You were right, not that I ever doubted it. Knowing your place in the world...makes everything clearer.

[All his life he's wondered why he existed. What purpose there was to him living. There's still so far to go before he can really say he knows his own reasons for everything. But for once, that doesn't feel so terrible.]