S . . . seriously? I mean, after all that, I guess I ain't even surprised that was the last step . . . no, I'm still totally surprised! I'm not that far gone yet! That's crazy!

But—damn. That's really cool. Not that you had to do all that, but you did it, right? You actually pulled that off . . .

[Rise-chan . . .

is awesome. He already knew that. All of this is just—it's hard to believe these things can happen to normal people, people he knows and likes and interacts with on a normal level. How is that even possible?

But on the other hand, how is anything else happening to them right now possible, either?]