[ Ken looks down, contemplating this. He doesn't mean to brush off that the other boy had been having a hard time back home, he's just...putting a puzzle together. ] So it's like that adventure.

[ Done being a mysterious deuteragonist, he meets his fellow Ken's eyes again. ] It's possible we've been summoned because there's something only we can do. That's happened to me once, and to

[ Can he use this word when he doesn't know them that well? But - maybe - given the support and acceptance they've shown him, and besides, Hikari-san and Takeru-san definitely qualify even if the older children are more acquaintances - ]

friends

[ oh gosh he said it ]

of mine.