[He manages not to collapse much, some energy already returning to him just from being close with him, their magic always reacting positively together. Just... staying close, there with him. He tries to comfort Subaru when he sobs like that, his voice a quiet murmur.]
No... no, it was nothing like that. [Mumbling another apology, softly, he explains. Even now he probably sounds like he can't properly believe his own words over this part:] A human came. A few days ago. He--
[.............]
He freed me. [The memory of Fuuma is still giving him a lot of feelings, too.] I can hardly grasp that it truly happened even now.