I wasn't. I said it, didn't I? I can't promise this place won't choose to do something different, but if I do have a choice, my choice is to stay. I don't want to go.

[She's quiet a moment before speaking softly.]

Please. Let me stay.

[She has a feeling that Kokichi's not sure which he wants more either way. He'd stopped her from leaving earlier, would he shove her away now? He knows--she knows he has to know--that his rejection would hurt worse than anything else he could ever do to her. It probably wasn't as dramatic as placing her life in his hands, but it might as well have been.]