Studying Kozue for a moment, Kouchisei appeared disappointed. He wasn't going to insult her intelligence openly - she was friends with Ikeda, and that woman had bought her way into the affections of a lot of people. It would be easier in a few years; he would be in a place where they wouldn't bother him. Because they would be a distance away.
"You will make someone happy. You're not stupid, and I can think of worse people." He knew most of them. "I don't want to hear in twenty years that your life has rotted away. So what is up your sleeve?"
He wondered what was so terrifying about having that worry about meeting someone taken away from you. If you trusted those helping you, it wasn't a problem.