"You were really fortunate to have met him..."

And thinking about it, Ryuutaro was also fortunate that Hayato had met him.
It was odd to think about what might have been, even only briefly.
Ryuutaro had lived under the assumption that everything happening was fate and could not have possibly happened any other way. It was an easy way, as he now realized. And maybe things weren't just quite as easy. Maybe. He'd need time to think all that over properly. And that time was just not now.