Hiroyasu is staring at you now, utterly silent, and for a brief moment you fear he might be about to reject you entirely. It would not be unreasonable for him to do so, you know; there are a great many people who dislike the idea of being manipulated by others, even to benign ends, and still more that would rather assume you have some ulterior motive than ever accept your words at face value. The only way to deal with that kind of person is to act without guile, to speak without thought and meet their sincere words with simple honesty of your own, but you… you can't do that.
You've tried, more than once, but this is one of those circumstances where your noble upbringing works against you. You've been trained from birth to fulfill the role your family demands from you, and part of that role demands an awareness of consequence and implication beyond anything your more lowborn peers will ever have to deal with. To do something without thinking of what it might mean, how it might change the way that another perceives you, to engage in social behaviour without even the slightest shred of manipulation… such things are akin to fighting with your eyes closed, and you simply cannot bring yourself to do so, not when so much rests upon your shoulders.
