[...Itsuki looks out at the view from the gondola. He remembers enjoying it so much the first time he went up here, a first time experience, being up somewhere so high.

And now?

It takes a moment for him to respond, but he does.]

Yeah. I told him I wanted to be with him. That I love him. I told him he didn't have to say it back, that I could wait. I just wanted to let him know.

[three weeks isn't enough time to get to know anyone, itsuki knows -- but he also knows his own nature. he'd been so reluctant to get closer -- because he knows who'd he become once he'd fallen. well, now he has, and now these feelings... love, sorrow, knowing that there'd be no one else. he'll accept those too]