[ he shakes his head ]

It was something else. [ extremely. bad timing. ]

...But it's in the past now, for the most part.

[ echoing todomatsu's words just earlier, ]

It's complicated.

Ah... yeah.

[ a couple memories of his own come to mind here, though he isn't broadcasting any of them — of osomatsu being so fucking awful at choromatsu's goodbye dinner, and of the time they were afraid they were going to lose their father. if dad hadn't gotten better, and if osomatsu had gotten into one of those moods again over it, he can imagine he wouldn't have been able to just forgive him and move on in the next episode either. ]

Everyone's emotions are running high during times like that... It's easy for things to get ugly, I think.

...I wish it weren't so easy. But, I suppose it was a hard-learned lesson.

[ and he can't know what todomatsu is thinking of, but he imagines he's had more serious confrontations with his own siblings in the past.

(and diluc would rather talk about totty's family than his own... sorry he's like this.) ]

...At any rate, I'm sure your brothers are worried for you.