Inigo lets out a quiet breath. It's eerie, how that feeling mirrored his own, though maybe for entirely different reasons. Isn't that the same thing he told Taiki before hanging up on him? It's better that I'm here. Alone. Where I can't hurt anyone.

It makes him debate saying that he wants Tidus around. That, of course, Tidus deserves to be around him. But it feels like such an obvious thing, something that goes unspoken, especially with the way they're holding each other right now.

So instead he first replies to the other thing Tidus says, sniffing lightly.

"You don't have to say anything to me." Especially not since Inigo thought for the longest thing - and even now still kind of feels like - he is the one who owes Tidus so much, rather than the other way around. "But.. if there is anything you want to say, you can. Once you're ready for it."

He tries to steady his voice as he says it. It's important that Tidus knows he means that. He'll wait. Without anticipation or pressure. Just giving Tidus the time he needs.

"Whether that's now, or in five months. I'll listen all the same."