Because he isn't fighting the grief, because he isn't berating himself for feeling it, the tide sweeps him away-- and then returns him again. He washes up in Koumyou's arms, damp-faced and shaky but feeling... better.

He extracts himself from his fiance's grip and smiles tiredly at him. "That's part of the reason I love you so much," he says, voice roughened a little from the crying spate. "Because you've always got me."