[ Hearing that is enough to make Kido's steps falter, because when it comes to it, Terry was always the one saying it clearly: "I like you" and "I love you" while Kido would rather die than say it to his face. She tried to show it in other ways, but even holding hands like this is something she had to muster up the courage for, when Terry does it so easily that she doesn't think it means as much to him as it does for her.

But it's not like she didn't love him, in those ten years where she admittedly never thought about him, outside of a vague sense of having somebody who would always always always have her back. But even if her families kept crumbling and falling apart, even if society kept rejecting her and made it hard to be around others, she never had the sense that she was alone in it all. Like Kano and like Seto, Terry was always there for her too, in those ten years she struggled through to get this this point. So seeing him again after a long time, it didn't feel like that at all, the feeling didn't really change, even as Kido's feet slow to a stop and she chews on her bottom lip because this is really sappy and she knows it, but she doesn't want Terry to think his feelings aren't reciprocated. ]

...Stupid. Why would it be different for me? Even if I did forget all about you, I'd just fall in love with you all over again.