I am often on my own. Being with groups is easy, of course. I used to hang around Amemura-kun, Samatoki-kun, and Ichiro-kun as a group. After we split... it was quite some time before I brought myself to have another group around.

[He lets her lean, also leaning back.]

I was very solitary in the time I was an assassin. Being alone for a long time is a hard habit to break.