Hamuko smiled, relaxing into her seat a bit. Reminiscing.

"There's a part of it, where... well, if he has the same background I have, at least... there's a camaraderie in talking to someone that's experienced a similar loss, more recently. Amada-kun, for me, was always... like getting a chance to talk to a version of myself that I hadn't really paid much mind to as I got older. I don't think I ever told him that."