[He smiles. Of course the sake is helping keep him calm a bit as it settles in, but yes he can talk about this.]

Perhaps I should explain...

My first meeting with Marco, I was quite hurt, but I truly remember thinking highly of you. Ah... such closeness with brothers, it was nice...

The next meeting I recall was when Greece-san was dressed as a woman... Ah, well. I continued to say such things were not meant for me, and Marco was someone who denied that from the start. [He's flushing just a little bit. From the talk or the sake OR BOTH]

Is it shallow of me, to think from that moment "If that is what you believe, then please show me how you think so?" [So. "Prove it" in a sense...] I-it is not as if I expected anything realistically so early, or at any point past then, but I suppose... I thought that if someone as charming as Marco believed such a thing, maybe it had some truth...

[Oh no now he's rambling and he looks away.]

I-it is difficult to properly explain! But at least so early, beginning just prior to that meeting, yes... my heart would react to Marco. [Dokidoki.]