"...Mm." She nodded, then brought her hands together in that familiar pose of hers. Point. Tomoko had a point, which was why she mentioned it, and it was coming back now--

"We're... we're allowed to bring someone with us and I was hoping-- I was going to ask you to--" come with me. But he couldn't anymore, could he? He'd be leaving soon and maybe when the date for the trip came he wouldn't be here anymore.

She swallowed, hard. Maybe... maybe it was a good thing, that he wouldn't be there for the trip. What was he going to do there, anyway? Of the two of them, the trip would only benefit Tomoko. It surely would bore him. She couldn't ask him to endure that for her. She couldn't ask him anything.

Tomoko shook her head. "But-- maybe you wouldn't like it anyway."