[Yeah, he can finally see what everyone meant by saying this world is hard to get used to, and hard to like sometimes.]
[He has the fleeting thought that he's probably going to regret this, but when he tries to remember the precise arguments he had for avoiding Dou in the first place, he can't grasp them, and he just can't be a jerk to you right now, not when you're so crushed already.]
[...] You can stay here, while you wait. The store is used to you by now, anyway. [It used to be just him, Maru, Moro and Mokona for so long... but it's alright, you've stayed over often enough by now that it's okay.]