Heh... if he wasn't proud of that, then I dunno what would make him! Ya hear all these stories about, y'know, changing for your spouse or whatever... but that right there's a friggin compromise!

Y'gotta meet in the middle with your special somebody. It's give n' take. It's awesome that ya did that, Konoha.

[He sat back.]

Naoto's... pretty world-renowned. Her family's a long line of famous detectives. If the cops can't solve the case, the Shirogane do. So the way I see it, settlin' down in the country and callin' it like that wouldn't work for her.

I'd just be trapping her.

[He smiled sadly, but it didn't last long. It brightened soon enough.]

So the way I see it, she'll be in n' outta the country whenever there's trouble. She could be away for weeks, months at a time. But when we have technology like Prismatica does, ways to talk over distances n' see each other, I figure it'll be okay.

Or...

[Shyly, he ruffled his hair.]

...Well, outside of here, I ain't ever really left home before. My secret plan's maybe flyin' out to surprise her, or goin' with her to cheer her on from whatever HQ happens to be.

So it's like that: You always gotta meet in the middle. I don't get why people don't get that in stories... but I guess that's why they're all stories, and not real life.