Nobunaga tilts his head. "I do not mean... perhaps different versions of the same person, were Kitsuno from my world to arrive here and not remember me... I would not wish to tell her a damn thing."

Definitely not.

"Rather, don't pine for the past. Something better might come along, so long as you keep your head up to not miss it -- as impossible as that seems now." He gets it, of course it seems impossible, but after so many impossible things, how can anything truly be?

"Why would he hate you?"