She also forgets to eat and can't cook for shit, so...trust me, even if it didn't seem like much, it helped.

[Accept his thanks, dammit. Though god is he ever having some flashbacks here. Flashbacks that are kind of giving him so secondhand embarrassment. Had he sound like this, back in the days before Chiaki had united their class?]

Y'know, though...the more you say shit like that, the more persistent she's gonna get about making friends. You're not wrong about her being weird that way. [He shakes his head a little.] It's just how she is.