Well, I met Sensei earlier when I first arrived here - or well, shortly thereafter. [He leaps back up onto the bench now, crouching down into a position again to the icon, balancing it effortlessly. And he grins] We've had some other fateful encounters since, of course! Though, I suppose, none as fateful as this one, where I learn that the idol of all the boy's attention has affections of her own... aaah, I wonder if I am late to the story or if I shall be the harbinger of all of out despairs?

[He says this lack part with a mock-regretful tone]