"If I'm being honest, I think I've always known why I was avoiding you, and why Mugen was advising me to stay away," he replied as his own eyes closed. "Everything has been leading to this. I wasn't avoiding something I didn't want. I was avoiding something I didn't want to lose." As he spoke these words, Raizen opened his eyes again, and rolled to face the redhead with his right hand reaching to the side of her head. "I guess I could have just put forth the effort to make sure such a thing couldn't happen. So... stay with me."