"I hate that prick! He's so... Ugly and weird!"
"Come on, don't go insulting people like that. Though it sucks that it turned out that way."
"Why, Denjirou?! I wished for this year to be the best one, and yet I'm saddled with this."
"Welp, miracles don't always happen. Is the union really necessary? Or is it rich folks becoming more rich."
"Rich folks becoming more rich."
"Tch, what do you even use that money for anyway? Wouldn't it be nice if you idiots actually contributed to society."
"Well, once you get a taste of luxury, you come to crave more. But there's also businesses expenses and taxes to pay. The bigger you are the more you have to sustain, while still have the ROI, lack thereof - will spiral into bankruptcy and death of you as an individual. Expenses and demands go exponentially and you need a steel mind to decisions, even cruel ones.
In the rich world - there is no kindness to be found. Only exploitation and perpetuation."
"And now they want to marry you off to that guy to increase profits."
"Yes and no. Yes because they want to increase profits. No because... They do not see me as a worthy heir. They see me as a liability."
"???"
"I'm a woman, Denjirou. If my parents had their way, if they had given birth to a son, even if he's younger than me - he would be the one to inherit it, not me. Women are seen as incapable of running business. And my parents are not keen on adopting someone other than their own, so now I'm shackled."
"..."
"I'm scared Denjirou. I sense that he has ill intentions towards me. If I marry him, I'll be stripped of my freedom."
"Calm down. We still have dreams, right? And internet. So at least you would have contact with me."
"No."
"?"
"I need you. You as my partner, you as someone who keeps me tethered. The someone who would hold me, and prevent me from falling apart all over again."
"... You don't have to love him, Yukino. From what I've heard, it seems he isn't enthusiastic about this arrangement either."
"But I want to be loyal to you and only you."
"..."
Yukino's now asking impossible requests. Come to think of it, that Kaguya dream was a bad omen after all. Lunarians had come to take her away.
With humans hopeless to make her stay.
Unable to properly console her in that regard, I embrace her. What the hell am I supposed to do? Obviously HER parents don't want me in the picture, I would be seen as a stain. A stranger. I know she wants to be with me, but in that regard it's nigh impossible without a scandal breaking out.
We flew too close to the sun.
"Can we go somewhere? Anywhere? Just the two of us..."
"..."