"Maybe from now on you could let me know if you are not in the mood to talk or tell me when I start to make you uncomfortable." she ignored him apologizing again, he had been sincere enough with the first and in her mind he did not need to keep doing it.
"I would like to think that we are good enough friends, even if the friendship isn't what it used to be, that we could be honest with each other. I don't like to bother you if you are having a bad day or if something I am doing is making you uncomfortable, and I am sure you feel the same about me. If it makes it any easier on you I would like for us to forget about titles if we could." she knew she made him uncomfortable at times, she had seen his smile fade and his whole body tense up when she joined him the day he yelled. She wasn't sure why, she could not imagine what about herself could be so offensive.
Her smile was a little sad but hopeful now, "I just don't know how to handle this from you, at times it feels like you are pushing me away with all of this formality. I never saw you for your title, it didn't matter to me then and it doesn't matter to me now, and I don't want you to behave as if you are somehow inferior to me. We're still just Kozu and Xiu Mei, equals."