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"This is Kakyoin Noriaki. Please leave a message, I'll contact you as soon as I can."

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I don't want good things to keep happening if they're just going to go away again. So I want to get everything right. In case that helps. That's all.

...I understand why you'd feel uncertain. But I don't think something like that hinges on anything we do or don't do.

I know. It's stupid. I'm just tired of it, that's all.

...

[Kakyoin held out one arm slightly in the usual invitation, public location be damned.]

I am, too. I'm tired and worried, and it's terrible.

[Oh. That takes some of the fight out of him. He's . . . a little reluctant. But after a brief pause, he steps to Kakyoin's side and tucks himself under his arm.]

I know. That's the other reason I didn't want to tell you.

I'm glad that you did. [and you're getting a damn hug.] I think...it's better to be worried with someone than to try holding something like that alone.

Yeah, probably.

[Still sulky. But the hug helps.]

Do you think it ever goes away?

Sometimes, just a little. But a little can be enough to live with until things start to look better.

. . . Okay. That helps.

[He buries his face in Kakyoin's shoulder.]

I hope it's a little better soon, anyway.

I know, Giorno. We're here right now, and I promise you that's not going to change in the next five minutes. That's something, isn't it?

Yeah.

You make things better in general. So. It helps.

...I think that about you, too. You're a very good--well, not a very good person, but you're a kind one I love a lot.

I love you too. Especially that you don't call me a good person.

[He says it jokingly but. Also totally means it.]

You're really gentle, for someone who's so mean a lot of the time.

I know you better than that.

[the worlds cutest mafia don is getting a hair ruffle.]

Only when people deserve it. Watch, someday I might have to hit Polnareff again.