I would hardly say it was a year given that I arrived from what should have been February to see the autumn season! [he protests without thought, only to gain a fairly distant expression soon after.

After all.] But indeed.... You've quite the guess, haven't you, [he remarks quietly, almost even coolly- undoubtedly thinking of what Dio's last memory of Erina should have been. He knows- not precisely- but he knows something happened that day.

What a terrible way to be reminded of how much started when they were simply children, even while he had been granted the time to think, 'He's a bit better than he was somehow, isn't he?'

Jonathan swallows, but then-] Query?

[He raises a brow to Speedwagon.] ...Speedwagon, just what is he talking about?