… So it’s almost the same for you, then. You haven’t been home in a while?

[ if it had been Hinata either physically counting or posing in victory, Otonashi might have shoved him a little. instead, it’s Inaba, and he’ll have to swallow everything wrong with her going through anything remotely like that. ]

And you’ve been killed, or - died, I don’t know. It’s probably rich coming from a dead guy, but I really am sorry. I don’t wish it on you or anyone else…

[ and he looks like he means to say more, but all he can bring himself to do is look down and kick at the dirt with the edge of his shoe a little. ]