[There's a lot lying here, isn't there? For the both of them. ...Well, it can't hurt to get it out into the open.

So he simply nods, solemn again.]

Thank you. In that case, since you asked first, I suppose I'll start?

[He waits for an acknowledgment before taking a breath and-- where to start?

With something like this? ...Always the beginning.]

I meant it when I said that I had a normal childhood. But...the accident that my parents lost their lives in...well, it was cause by a conflict between someone using her Persona and...Death.