"It's worth working on, yeah, but-- honestly, I didn't even know if Mako liked me," instead, Wu just kissed him in a moment of desperation and feeling, and was left in the dark for a week. It was a very bad week, a painful week, but it had turned out well. "But it was a risk. It was terrifying. Sometimes, it still is."

He's still watching Manabu, his mind turning over what Manabu must be afraid of. "You don't really seem like the kind of guy who's afraid of risks. At least, not all the time."