Because I am sure. There are analysts I'm very happy to have met and analysts who ruined everyone I ever loved. It's like how gunpowder can turn into fireworks or bombs.

[It's not like the destination doesn't matter to Mitarai; he doesn't want Gogol to feel pressured into accepting not getting understood at all, or even dismiss understanding that does evolve quickly. (After all, his own position would be endangered then.) But there's a difference between getting pushed into a river and fished out... Deft hands that shove and hands that reach... Evil isn't good. He won't fall into despair and learn to breathe on the bottom of the river. Even if the prince that finally reached him went home with - wait, the mermaid saved the prince. He's gotta stop basking in bittersweet feelings already.

Mitarai clenches his empty right fist and looks up.]

I'd really like to show Golyadkin-kun what I've learned, if that's welcome. Maybe even a new anime.