"Just because she likes you doesn't mean she is not careful of you." There was a difference. Shion liked a lot of people and yet he understood that people would hurt him and he understood that even if they didn't want to people could be made to hurt him.

He hurt others, he could be made to hurt others. But you couldn't just not connect with people. That was not a way to live your life.

He knew enough about Nezumi to know he would disagree.

"Small. I don't think you would want a lot of people to be there, especially if you hadn't met many people here yet. We could have food though and... Well birthday parties should be whatever you want."