[Takami's voice is heavy as he says the following:]
In life, that happens though. You have to take a different path that separates you from those you are close to, and you have to adjust to a new environment. I suppose in a way, this experience braces for those times.
I think it's best to have known someone and miss said person when he or she is gone than to have never met that person at all.
[But he smiles back at Risa when she smiles at him. For once, here's someone who he can truly act as himself around. Just as Takami, not as Dark Takami or a distanced outsider. He needed that.]