[There's a soft snort, which really is all the confirmation she needs. However, he chooses to keep talking anyway.]
I mean of course I do. Tadashi and Aunt Cass are the only people I have left. Sometimes they're the only people that matter. [...okay, usually they're the only people that matter.] Tadashi and I are seven years apart, so he's always looked out for me. And you know Tadashi, Adelina. He's really smart and he's too good of a person.
Just that... I know what it's like to have someone who matters much more to you than any other, even if you have the opportunity to form more bonds here. I can imagine how you must feel about him being here.
Oh. [Given the way he doesn't elaborate immediately, he definitely seems to sympathize with the fact that Adelina can even remotely imagine something like that. It's...complicated, the thing with Tadashi being here and Hiro being here. But that's for them to eventually work out on their own and instead he focuses on the other piece.]
I mean he's selfless and will pretty much do anything to help another person even at the risk of himself. That's what went wrong in the first place.
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I mean of course I do. Tadashi and Aunt Cass are the only people I have left. Sometimes they're the only people that matter. [...okay, usually they're the only people that matter.] Tadashi and I are seven years apart, so he's always looked out for me. And you know Tadashi, Adelina. He's really smart and he's too good of a person.
["What's not to look up to?"] What about it?
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What do you mean by too good?
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I mean he's selfless and will pretty much do anything to help another person even at the risk of himself. That's what went wrong in the first place.