[ And this is why his shoes wore through after only six months. ]

Yeah? Then I'll be relying on you, okay? We can go whenever you're free, since it looks like you're getting busier and busier every day.

[ He's been doing a lot of moping and brooding and note taking, but the end result is being holed up and always looking like he's busy. It makes him kind of unapproachable sometimes, compared to the good old days where he'd be stuck in a hospital bed with nothing to do and Kido could bother him whenever. ]