"Honestly, I don't know that I feel the same way about any two people. Even the way caring about them feels, it's definitely different."

Not because he thinks Taiki's bond, which in ways sounds very... insidiously like something Lan familiar, right now to the heartbreak when it goes wrong, is something inherently bad, or good. It just is. Instead, it's the alignment of so many other important relationships in his life that still define it, and him, without sweeping him away in an emotion so grand it makes it hard to breathe.

"So does anyone ever need to feel like him to you? Would you even want them to?"