It would have been painfully awkward. I... think you would have had to confess to me right was the ball dropped. I can say from experience that a confession right before the New Year's kiss can be 'quite' the passionate moment but it almost always goes disastrously.

[Yep, definitely she knew that from experience.]

Here... we have time to just absorb each other, to take our time with it. May I ask, Setsuna? When you look at me.

...

What do you hope for?