[ That wins a breathy laugh. ]

You'll have to thank people smarter than me. This all happened a long time ago. For both of us, it seems.

[ Idly Yu lifts up the book and pads it with the hem of his shirt, gently drying the pages from Yosuke's wet fingerprints. ]

It seems we once used the same written language, but at some point, it diverged... we may have shared a history, at some point. [ Yu smiles more openly. ] I wonder what it was like.