[hm...]

...I don't want to tell you how to react -- or say that your feelings are wrong.

[especially not when buzen does his best to fulfill every one of itsuki's wants? he truly does love that about buzen, but not -- at the expense of what he could feel? he should be allowed to feel however he likes?

but he doesn't want to leave buzen confused either... hiding his feelings now might actually upset him, more than everything else he's admitted so far,]

I just... [...] I know that it looked like I was happy -- and maybe I was. But... I was just the same person I was before I met you. Just that same, cowardly guy -- who never talks about his real feelings, and only thinks of himself.

I don't like being that person. And I never want to be that person again. I don't want to exist without you... Because that wouldn't really feel like living.

[how intense, perhaps dramatique, but itsuki is hard-wired to treat his feelings with this much intensity at all times. he tries to smile to lighten up the atmosphere a little, placing his hand on the side of buzen's face,]

...That's just how I feel. So it wouldn't be fair of me to expect the same from you.