".. alright," he slowly and quietly agrees. Looking the other in the eyes as he says it. It is hard for Inigo to fully process that, to put it somewhere in his brain where he won't start doubting it again at some point, but that's just the nature of the beast when your sense of self worth is as low as his. But he's determined to try, at least. Determined to try and remember this moment. Tidus is obviously putting effort into saying all this for him, so there's no way Inigo would just want to discard it.

It definitely does shine a light on everything back home though. It's not as his friends there aren't his friends, but.. they never had time for this, did they? Just having dumb fights over nothing. Having these sorts of talks. It's why all of this is so new to him. A friendship this tight, focused on just friendship, rather than the priority needing to be with foremost surviving each day.

"Sorry that I keep thinking these kinds of things. It's just.." His voice trails off to look for the right word to describe it, but ending up with nothing other than, ".. hard. But I'll try, Tidus. I know you wouldn't say all that unless you mean it."

Inigo shakes his head.

"But then you also have to stop saying you're being a pain, and stuff like that. It's not like you tried to hurt me on purpose last time. You have nothing to say you're sorry for, you're just hurting. And you're trying to deal with that. I'm not mad at you-- I've never been mad at you." Well, discounting all their dumb petty small dramatic arguments, but it's hard to have called himself mad over that as much as just.. momentarily whiny. "I don't think I ever fully could be, you know?"