Tachibana nodded. "Yeah. Never figured out how, back home," he admitted.

There had been too many echoes. Carefully rebuilding BOARD from the ashes, making it be the company he had thought it had been when he had joined it... There had always been some reason-- some excuse to linger in that minefield of memories. It hadn't been until he had been forcibly removed from it that he'd finally be able to even start to see past the events of seeming so long ago.